Senator Mike Lee joins Glenn Beck to debate the Save America Act, advocating for a "talking filibuster" against opposition from Senators Murkowski, McConnell, and Tillis. They condemn Majority Leader John Thune and Vice President JD Vance while linking a $79 billion February interest payment to systemic corruption, citing a Los Angeles hospice fraud scheme and legal aid obstructions. The episode concludes with Beck promoting "The Blueprints of the Destruction of the West," arguing that political Islam, exemplified by Zohran Mamdani's actions, threatens Western civilization through incompatible values. [Automatically generated summary]
I don't know if that's going to make the cut, because I might have said some things that, you know, he wouldn't have said at the end, and it was about John Thune and the Save America Act.
The true cost of looking the other way, all of the corruption, what does all of it mean, and why doesn't anybody seem to care?
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We have Senator Mike Lee.
Talk to us about safety.
What the hell is going on?
Excuse my language.
Senator Mike Lee, how are you?
Doing great.
Thank you, Glenn.
Good to be with you as always.
Okay, now, Mike, you're the nicest guy I know.
You're the most senatorial kind of guy I know.
You don't ever like to kick up dust and dirt.
But I got to ask you, what the hell is going on?
Who in the Senate just does not want this thing to come to the floor and actually have their vote counted?
Come on.
Who?
You know, that's the most curious thing, Glenn.
We know that there are three who are opposed to the bill.
They've been public about that.
Senators, Murkowski, McConnell, and Tillis.
What we don't know is who else might be among those reputed to be against bringing up the talking filibuster, using the talking filibuster to bring up the Save America Act to pass the Save America Act.
Look, we've got basically zero chance of passing this without invoking the talking filibuster.
If we do invoke it, we've got a chance.
Now, we can't guarantee exactly what it will look like.
Can't guarantee exactly what the outcome will be, but we know we've got a chance, a decent chance to pass it if we do it this way, in the same way that they had a decent chance of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if and only if they used a talking filibuster.
They did, it passed.
We should do the same thing here.
Yes, it takes work.
Yes, there's uncertainty.
Yes, it'd be a pain in the neck, but you know what?
That's our job.
And thank heavens.
For those who are grateful for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the protections that it brought with it, they should all be very grateful that the Senate didn't whuss out then.
They should be very grateful that they didn't let a few senators say, well, I'm going to vote against cloture, so don't even try, or just force a failed failure theater cloture vote at the front end, and then we'll move on.
Thank heavens, they didn't do that.
They stuck with it.
They stuck with it for 60 days.
And you know what happened?
It brought people to the table.
It made people think.
It made people realize they were on the wrong side, the losing side of history.
And they ended up negotiating some changes to the bill to save face, and they got the thing passed.
We have to do the same thing here.
We don't know who the other three other people are other than those initial three who have identified themselves as against the bill.
I strongly disagree with them, but at least they've got the courage to say what they're doing.
There are others who are under the cover of night for reasons I don't understand.
They're not required to identify themselves.
Instead, take pot shots from the cheap seats and say, we don't want to do it.
But let's see, American people feel differently, and we ought to do this.
The American people are with us on this, Glenn.
It doesn't come this way very often.
These ships don't pass this way very often.
Where we've got the House, we've got the Senate, we've got the White House, and we've got 85% of the American people on our side, only congressional Democrats and a few miscellaneous others are against this.
So let's take advantage of it and don't let these people hide in silence in secrecy and not even identify themselves, much less articulate their reasons for not wanting to do it.
This is absurd.
So Jonathan Martin at Politico came after me the other day and he said, How can one spend decades in and around American politics and not understand the basic macro politics of midterm elections?
He was taking me on because I said, it'll be the death of the Republic and it might be the death of the Republicans if they don't take this up and pass it.
And my producer Ricky, you know, tried to answer some of his questions, you know, because sometimes people care more about principles than politics.
And he seemed to miss the point entirely when he replied.
He said, midterms are historically difficult for the party in power.
It has nothing to do whether a voter ID passes six months before the election.
Stop with the apocalyptic nonsense and learn some basic history.
I'm not sure what history he's looking for other than, yeah, midterms are tough for the party that's in, but he seems to miss that I really believe the voters that go out and actually vote, the base of your party, that care, are tired of this back and forth political nonsense.
And they're saying, here's a principle that you have the chance to actually pass that everybody in America is for.
Mike, tell me, are you anybody in the Senate concerned that maybe by not doing these things, you will lose your base and people are not going to go out and fight and even fight the traffic to go out and vote for you people.
And I'm sorry to lump you in on that, but the GOP, they're not going to go out and vote for you because you don't stand for anything.
This is the biggest clear victory I have ever seen.
And the DOP is not going to take advantage of it.
And they won't tell us why.
And they don't even want to be on record on which ones vote for it, which ones vote against.
Something's terribly wrong here.
Yeah.
Because we're addicted to comfort.
We're addicted to convenience.
We meaning the Senate as an institution.
We've gotten so accustomed to predictability and ease and comfort and being able to plan ahead and saying, well, I want to be in this city on this day.
I want to give a speech here on that day.
Sometimes you have to do things in this job that are difficult.
Sometimes you have to take a lot of votes.
Sometimes you have to give a lot of speeches.
Sometimes you have to devote a lot of time at inconvenient times in order to do things before you run out of time.
We're about to run out of time.
And yeah, that reporter is right.
Things can be very difficult for the party that's got the majority in both houses of Congress and the White House.
And that's all the more reason why we've got to do everything we can to make sure our elections are secure and do everything we can to make sure that our base shows up.
And they're not going to show up unless we fight their battles, unless we make clear that we're with them.
This one should not be hard, Glenn.
There are things in this job that are hard that are really hard.
This isn't one of them.
And I literally do not understand.
This has been one of the more perplexing things in 15 years in the United States Senate that I've seen.
I literally don't have a legitimate explanation for this.
I mean, I get it.
The radical left hates this bill.
They hit it with a white-hot passion.
And we can all make an educated guess as to why they hate it.
But regardless, that doesn't mean that the rest of us who are not part of the radical left have to go along with it.
And so I'm dumbfounded by the fact that we as Senate Republicans are resisting this.
Now, all that said, look, if we move forward, and I've spoken to Senator Thune, the Senate Majority Leader, as recently as last night about this, and we'll move to it and we'll debate it, regardless of whether he wants to call it a talking filibuster.
I don't care what he calls it.
But we've got to get onto the bill.
And we've got to not move right ahead to filing cloture and going forward with what would at this point be a failed cloture vote.
We've got to make them speak.
We've got to make them hold the floor.
We've got to make them defend their indefensible position in front of the American people under the white hot lights of the Senate floor.
And we've got to make them do it for a significant amount of time.
I don't know how much time it's going to take, but you subject them to that for enough time.
And I'm very confident some of them are going to start to see the light on this.
Some of them are going to start coming to the negotiating table on this because they don't want to have to defend the indefensible very long.
So Thune says he'll bring it to a vote.
But what does that mean?
Does that mean the cloture thing?
Well, if it means he's going to bring it up, we'll have a motion priest.
See, that's the beauty of this bill, the procedural status of the bill.
It's coming over from the House of Representatives in the form of a message.
There are all these weird rules that relate to the interplay between the House rules and the Senate rules.
The House sends us a bill in the form of a message.
That means that we don't have to take a cloture vote at the front end to get onto the bill.
With many bills, you've got to cast a vote on what's called cloture on the motion to proceed.
And that takes 60 votes to get us to the point where we can proceed to a bill.
We don't have that here.
So he's going to bring it up.
Getting onto the bill will occur at a simple majority vote threshold.
And we just need to debate the bill for a while, for a considerable amount of time, without filing closure, without going to the next step of bringing debate to a close on the bill itself, because that takes 60 votes.
We don't have that yet.
Following back to our example from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they were 32 votes shy of closure when the bill arrived from the House of Representatives in March of 1964.
They spent 60 days debating it.
And lo and behold, those people who were opposed to it, mostly Democrats, by the way, they started to negotiate after a few weeks of this.
And they were eventually able to negotiate some changes that allowed them to save enough face that they were able to and willing to vote for cloture at the end of the process.
And as a result, that bill passed.
This is one of those moments.
I don't want to compare the two bills.
They're different bills, but this one should be way easier to pass than that one.
It's simpler.
It's way more popular than that one.
And so we got to get that.
I have to tell you, it just pissed me off so much when Thune came out and said, yeah, well, they still needed 60 votes.
Yes, they didn't have the 60 votes when they started.
60 days later, as you said, the 34 votes suddenly were found.
I mean, oh, just so agonizing.
Donald Trump seems to be really clear on pushing and saying, get this done.
They don't seem to care.
Thune doesn't seem to care.
McConnell, of course, doesn't.
Murkowski, tell us.
They don't care.
Has he done everything he can?
Well, look, no, nobody's done everything that they can until they have gone through the steps that we've described.
And again, I don't care what we want to call it.
If he doesn't like calling it a talking filibuster, I really could not care less.
What I care about is getting this damn bill on the floor, debating it and debating it for a long time.
I mean, two weeks ought to be the bare minimum and then reassess at that point where we are and what we need to do to keep the momentum going and what we need to do to keep bringing about consensus.
But the one thing we cannot do is bring it to the floor and then say, oh, gee, we're tired.
We want to take a recess.
It's time for recess.
We need to recess for a couple of weeks for Easter.
And then, you know, some of us want to go to the Bahamas or whatever ridiculous thing they've got planned.
That will result in failure.
And so I can't emphasize enough the importance of continuing to talk about this, continuing to encourage your senators, regardless of where you think they may be on this, whether you think they're staunchly against it or already for it.
I promise you, they need encouragement.
They need to be told, you need to be in Washington.
You need to not leave Washington until this is done and the Department of Homeland Security is funded.
I've only got about 60 seconds.
Mike, is there anything, is there any procedure that allows JD Vance to take the leadership role?
JD Vance can come to the Senate anytime he wants and immediately assume the position in the presiding officer chair.
is, I've long believed, significant and underutilized authority that comes with sitting in that chair.
Just the ability to call the shops from moment to moment to make procedural rulings upon receiving, but not necessarily always guided by the advice of the parliamentarian, the presiding officer, especially if the vice president can do what he wants.
But I would certainly welcome the vice president coming to do that.
And I would also welcome each and every Republican senator weighing in on this and encouraging Senate Republicans to do the right thing.
Look, I don't want to speak for anyone else.
I don't want to put words into any senator's mouth.
It is not my place to do that.
But I will say this.
I do think that Jon Thune wants to win the November elections.
I do think he wants to keep both chambers of Congress in Republican hands.
And based on my most recent conversations with him, including last night, I think he gets the fact that we can't get on this bill and immediately start heading to cloture.
Let's continue to encourage him to prolong debate on this as long as it takes to get it passed.
Thanks, Mike.
I'm going to say something and Mike didn't.
I think Thune is a piece of garbage myself on this and worthless.
And I would encourage the White House to encourage JD Vance to go over and assume the role.
Get this done.
If they're not going to do it, encourage the vice president and the president to have the vice president walk in and say, Thune, sit down.
Exposing Hospice Fraud in LA00:13:57
Here's what we're going to do.
If that is constitutionally, if he's able to do that constitutionally, it should be done.
That did not come from Mike Lee.
Mike, thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
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I'm going to start with some bad news.
I'm going to give you some good news.
And then I'll give you that.
Then I probably will give you some good news.
But let me give you some bad news.
We're talking about the numbers of the debt and our deficit.
We just released some more numbers that were made-up numbers when I was a kid.
We have just run a trillion-dollar deficit in the first five months of this fiscal year.
Now, here's the good news.
That's better than it was last year.
So we're making some progress.
But buried inside of this report is another number that should wake us all up, and that is $79 billion.
In the first five months, $79 billion.
That's what we paid in interest.
Not in the first five months.
We paid that in February, $79 billion.
We paid in interest on our debt that is now approaching $39 trillion, just interest.
That is, you know, that's more expensive than everything except three other categories, Social Security, income security programs, and healthcare.
Any civilization that is borrowing money just to pay interest on money it already borrowed at that debt is not going to survive.
So let me ask you, we're $39 trillion in the hole.
We just paid $79 billion last month for just service of the debt.
Let me ask you.
Those numbers are so huge.
Is your life getting better?
Do you feel like your life is getting better?
Is your airport in your town brand new?
How about your roads and bridges for all those infrastructure projects that we've done?
Are they better?
How about your hospital?
Is it new?
Is it expanded?
Lots of extra room, you know, in the hospital.
Are your children better educated?
In any way, shape, or form, we've spent $39 trillion.
Can you tell me where that money has gone to make your life better?
Because I don't see the result of it.
I see it in the military, and that's it.
That's it.
So where's the money actually going?
Well, let's step away from the spreadsheets here a bit and let's go just looking around poking in cities like Los Angeles because the answer begins to emerge.
And it is far uglier than most Americans are even prepared to admit.
Maybe, maybe, or maybe they don't care.
I don't know.
But let me start with the hospice scandal that we talked about yesterday in Los Angeles County.
This is one county.
Investigators and journalists have now uncovered what appears to be one of the largest hospice fraud schemes in modern American history.
Notice we're hearing it's the largest hospice.
It's the largest, you know, autism scheme.
What are all these schemes, the largest medical scheme?
Hospice care, you know, I'd feel a little guilty stealing from the hospice system.
You know, final chapter of life, families gather, pain is eased, dignity is preserved, and you're stealing from that?
Wow.
Okay, Medicare pays for that.
No, let me rephrase that.
You pay for that, your tax dollars, and you pay for that because you have compassion.
Okay.
But in Los Angeles County, hundreds of hospice companies suddenly appeared almost overnight and nobody noticed.
Many of them are run out of small little offices and storefronts and residential homes, like 30, 30 of these companies in one little office.
Really?
And they were enrolling patients who are not dying.
In fact, they existed, but they didn't know they were enrolling in this.
They weren't terminal.
People had no idea they had been signed up for hospice at all.
Once somebody is falsely enrolled in hospice, the money then begins flowing from Medicare to whom?
Where?
Tens of thousands of dollars per patient.
Some patients allegedly cycled through multiple fraudulent hospital providers or hospice providers like inventory.
The dying turn into billing codes.
The elderly turned into profit centers.
Is this a victimless crime?
Hospice fraud means that real care is denied.
Pain medication is withheld.
Proper treatment is delayed.
Families misled.
And it's not theft of just money.
It is the theft of dignity at the end of human life.
And when this scandal broke, the response was predictable, wasn't it?
Political response was finger-pointing, blame shifting, anything except what the public deserves, and that is a ruthless house cleaning.
Ruthless house cleaning.
Now let's stay in Los Angeles just for a minute, because the second story is just as revealing.
City of Los Angeles, again, we went from the county now to the city.
They have approved $106 million to a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to tenants facing eviction.
So now, on the surface, helping people who can't afford legal representation sounds compassionate, right?
But let's take a look a little closer.
The organization receiving the money is LAFLA, the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
Over the next three years, they will receive $106,572,543.69 from the taxpayer.
Lawyers connected to the same organization have repeatedly filed lawsuits that prevent the city from clearing homeless encampments.
Encampments that are blocking sidewalks.
Encampments that create unsafe conditions for residents.
Encampments that make companies and storefronts that are actually paying tax dollars from being able to do business entire neighborhoods in zones of disorder.
The city can't enforce its own municipal codes because the lawyers are constantly suing the city and the city is paying for those lawyers.
And those lawyers are building $1,025 an hour.
$1,025 per hour taxpayer funded to obstruct the taxpayer.
I mean, the system is a joke.
It's a loop.
Government tries to do its job.
Government then funds the lawyers who want to stop it from doing its job.
Lawyers sue the government.
Government pays the settlement.
Crisis continues.
This is Cloud and Pivot, and the bill just keeps growing.
Now step back.
Forget about the corruption in Minnesota or New York or Illinois or anywhere else.
I'm telling you, we're going to find this all over the country.
But just focus on the headlines of today.
One story is hospice fraud targeting the elderly and the dying.
The second is taxpayer money funding legal warfare that perpetuates urban collapse in the same city and county as the other fraud.
And above both of them sits the third number, a trillion dollar deficit in five months.
Interest payments that rival entire federal programs.
That's the real story.
Because if this level of corruption can happen in just one county, in just one city, in one set of programs, you have to ask the question nobody wants to actually ask reason why Elon Musk was chased out of town.
What if Los Angeles is not the exemption or the exception?
What if it is actually the rule?
What if Los Angeles is the model?
We spend roughly $6.5 trillion every year.
Do you feel that?
Is your life getting easier?
Let's just do the numbers.
If just 10% of that is lost to fraud, waste, and corruption, that's $650 billion.
If it's 20%, that's $1.3 trillion.
That's the entire deficit.
This is deeply unsettling.
It should be.
If what we're seeing in places like Los Angeles reflects the broader system, then 20%, maybe one-third of the federal deficit every single year may simply be because of corruption.
Not policy disagreements, not things that they're funding that we all think are crazy, not defense spending, not Social Security, corruption.
It is robbery from you, the taxpayer.
The quiet siphoning of money from you through programs that are meant to be compassionate, noble, necessary, until you look closely enough and see the machinery underneath.
And how many people were involved for this kind of corruption to happen?
How many people turned a blind eye?
How many people were told, sit down, shut up, or you'll lose your job?
This is the mob.
And it's the moral condition required for it to continue.
Hospice is stealing from the dying.
Legal rackets profit from homelessness.
Cities paying organizations to obstruct the enforcement of basic law and order.
And what's the reaction from the public?
Meh.
Shrug a headline.
Another day.
What are you going to do about it?
Got news for you.
Republic's not going to stand with that level of indifference.
It can't.
Can't.
Corruption doesn't begin with greedy officials.
It begins when a society decides, eh, we don't need to look that closely.
When voters stop demanding answers.
When outrage is selective.
When the most vulnerable people in society, do you know how poorly history is going to judge us?
When you have elderly patients, the homeless who are struggling, when you're stealing from the dying and they become revenue streams instead of human beings.
Oh my gosh, that's the real bankruptcy.
Forget about our money.
This isn't financial bankruptcy.
This is moral bankruptcy.
Lots of, throughout history, lots of countries go bankrupt.
They run out of money.
Most of them run out of money because they ran out of virtue first.
Rome had corruption.
Late-stage empires always do.
Rome's real problem was eventually the citizens just didn't care enough to stop it.
They were fine with the circuses and the cakes.
Are we fine with the circuses and cakes?
What are the circuses that are happening in your life right now?
What circuses are happening that the media is pushing?
What circuses are you seeing on social media every day?
Because we're all watching a circus.
And we're learning to live with it.
And we're learning to accept it as our treasury is being, your bank account is being robbed.
Warning, the world's largest robbery is happening right now.
It is the warning flare so big it should be able to be seen from space.
If hospice fraud can flourish in the shadows, if taxpayer money can fund legal warfare against you with your money, if billions can move through programs with no accountability, then the deficit we see on paper is only part of the story.
The real deficit is something harder to repair.
A deficit of courage, a deficit of attention, a deficit of moral clarity.
And unless we rediscover those things really soon, gang, the most dangerous line in the federal budget will not be the interest payments.
It will be that silent line item that's been growing for decades, the cost of looking the other way.
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It's a week from tonight on glennbeck.com/slash torch.
And it is the blueprints of the destruction of the West, the Islamic blueprints for the destruction of the West.
And we take you through it, and we have all kinds of experts.
We have done literally probably what three or four months worth of research just for this 90-minute special.
It's a live documentary.
And we have really tried to up our game.
You know, he was doing these weekly specials, and then we could get them really good, but we couldn't get them exactly right because we just never had the time because we were churning them out, you know, every week.
And I wanted to take a deeper look so I could go what we call internally a deep dive on certain subjects.
And so, this first deep dive is on the blueprints of how Islam is planning on taking over.
The Islamists are planning on Sharia law throughout the world, and America is a prime target.
Remember, we're the great Satan.
Let me, you know, let me hear, let me give you this.
Here is a Chicago Islamist.
He is an Islamic scholar, and he is explaining why Islamists are coming to America.
Cut seven.
This is Chicago.
Listen: Islam did not come to coexist, and Islam is raised high, and nothing is raised above Islam.
We can't think of Islam that it came to live with these other religions in the sense that Islam is a religion amongst those religions, and they have a share with the truth, and they have a share of justice.
Islam came to correct all of that, Islam came to remove all those religions, and it is the only truth, and it is the only way to justice.
Now, let me ask you: if this were being said by a political person that is engaged in, you know, in advocacy, and he was Christian, and he said, Christianity is here, it's above all other religions, and it will wipe out all other religions and replace all other religions.
And that is why Christians are here in America to destroy and correct all other religions.
Do you think the media would be on it?
Do you think the media would be on it?
The answer is, of course, they would.
Of course, they would.
They seem to be able to handle any kind of religious extremism unless it's just ordinary Christians who are like, Yeah, we're going to have a prayer meeting in the Capitol.
Let me give you something else.
New York City's first Muslim mayor, Mamdani, hosted a traditional Iftar dinner on Thursday in the historic blue.
Sorry, sorry?
Yeah, oh, sorry, sorry, yesterday.
Um, I got my days all screwed up anyway.
In the blue room with uh, Muslim influencers featuring prayer rugs and floor-to-floor, you know, floor seating amid all the American flags and the George Washington portrait and everything else.
And I want to play a video of what happened at this Iftar dinner Wednesday in the blue room.
Here it is.
Do you want me to make some of that?
For a moment, you're asking yourself how you can reconnect to growing up with being taught that.
. Okay. . Okay. .
So what's happening here?
He's having this prayer dinner with everybody.
Not a problem.
Except he was just recently.
Do we have the video of him speaking at the mosque?
Just recently, he was speaking at a mosque that's been linked to the, what is it, the Alevi Foundation, which the DOJ is accused of being affront for the Iranian government.
He just spoke there.
And if we have the audio, can you play the prayer?
Here's the audio.
Last Ramadan, I was with many of you here at the procession on the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Ali.
It is a privilege to be here with you once again.
I stand before you as the first Muslim mayor in our city's history.
And this here is the first Jum'ah that I have attended in that new position.
Snappy number that they performed.
Okay, so what is that?
What is the Imam reciting here?
You know, it's not a Frank Sinatra hit.
It is something called the sword verse.
It's from the Quran.
It's the verse that calls for the death of all infidels by the sword.
And Mamdani is standing there listening to this, knowing what it is.
Okay.
Jason, you just finished up some of the interviews and the pre-interviews that we have for the special next week.
And these are all experts on this.
And you asked him about Mamdani.
What was the general feeling on him?
Some of the experts that we interviewed for this, some of them were Muslims as well, like more on the line of like reformist Muslims.
They're all against political Islam.
But not only between the Muslim experts that we talked to and the others, every single one of them that I asked said that, yes, he is an Islamist.
Yes, there is something else going on here.
And I did not expect that at all.
Well, if you remember right, who was it?
Sarsour?
Linda Sarsour, who is a deep Islamist or involved with deep Islamists.
She said, how do you think he got in?
He got in with our money, and he is going to be executing our philosophies or there will be hell to be paid.
So, I mean, she admitted that that's how he got in.
And everybody is listening how, okay, so they just had the prayer rug meeting.
Let me see if I can get the.
This is from the New York Times in February.
Mamdani ushers in a new tradition, Ramadan in City Hall.
Ramadan also comes at a particularly fraught time for Muslim immigrants who fear being targeted by federal agents while gathering for prayers or iftar dinners.
Show me the iftar dinner that has been targeted by federal agents because I'll stand with you.
I'll stand with you.
Show me one.
Show me one in New York Times.
But the allies of Mr. Mamdani are hoping this year's Ramadan could inspire more pride among the city's Muslims who after the September 11th attacks have had to contend with heightened surveillance, harassment, and increased Islamophobia.
You got to be kidding me.
That includes Mr. Mamdani.
He has endured such hell.
That man has endured such hell that he has had to go vacation at his parents' very wealthy compound in other countries.
He has come back only to be so oppressed that he becomes the mayor of New York City.
Oh my gosh, what a horrible life this man has led.
He's faced an onslaught of faith and ethnicity-based attacks during the mayoral campaign.
He has expressed concern that current political climate has made Muslim New Yorkers less safe.
Right.
You mean kind of like those Muslim New Yorkers that just tried to kill a bunch of protesters?
Oh, no, wait.
Those were anti-Muslim protesters that they were trying to kill.
This period of piety as mayor could present the opportunity to showcase the realities of fasting and living one's faith as a political leader.
New York Times, show me the other time that a Christian has had their political views as a political leader, their religious views married in that you said, you know, the realities, we should showcase the realities of fasting and living one's Christian faith as a political leader.
You can't show me either of those things because you never ever do that.
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I can't take it.
And that's, in a nutshell, what this special is going to be like if I don't learn to, maybe I'll need a tranquilizer dart just off the stage.
And somebody like Ricky who has more control can just shoot me with a dart in my neck halfway through the show because I think I might lose it.
Burn a launcher coming in hot.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh.
This is this when, when America, when will the majority of us stand up and say, I don't hate anybody.
I don't hate anybody.
But you're not taking over our culture.
You're not taking over our country.
If you want to believe that, believe that.
But you're not jamming it down our, I was going to say our necks.
You try the throat, but if you have a head, they'll just jam it down your neck after they behead you with it.
No, it is absolutely incompatible with Western society.
It is incompatible.
You know, let me, let me, let me just give you something.
Let's just go through the Ten Commandments here.
Let me go through the Ten Commandments.
Judeo-Christian belief.
No gods, no gods.
You'll have no gods before me.
We believe that.
Okay, as Christians.
Now, you may not, because you may not be a Christian.
You may not believe in, you know, religion or whatever.
But Judeo-Christian values, which is what we're based on.
And by the way, that doesn't mean necessarily, you know, you can't have Ralph, your Wednesday God.
It means what gods do you serve?
Your mortgage, your job, your reputation?
What is it that you serve?
Because whatever it is that you spend all your time on, all your attention on, that's the God you serve.
Okay.
So Islamists believe it too, except, I mean, it's a little different because they believe in genies and jinns.
Now, as a recovering alcoholic, I believe in jinn too, but it's not the same kind.
No graven images.
Yep, we both believe that.
No use of God's name in vain.
We believe that.
They don't.
Remember the Sabbath.
Yep.
Honor your father and mother.
Yep.
Thou shalt not murder.
Yep.
Except if you're an infidel.
If you're an infidel, then I can murder you.
You shall not commit adultery.
Yep.
Well, actually, not for everybody.
Guys can have as many wives as they want.
And you know what?
If that's an infidel and she just looks sexy because she's trying to trick me, might be a genie.
She's trying to trick me into it.
I can rape her.
But that's not adultery.
That's just her sin, not mine.
Thou shalt not steal.
Yep.
Well, not the Islamist.
You know, if you're an infidel, I can steal from you.
Shall not bear false witness.
Yep.
Well, unless you're an Islamist, then, you know, I can lie to you, you know, if you're an infidel.