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I started the show off with Donald Trump is going to be speaking to the nation here in about 30 minutes.

Usually he's late, so maybe in an hour.

But he's going to be talking about what he's doing in Washington, D.C.

And we're going to give you all the facts on that because, I mean, the first thing that everybody in the media is jumping, he's a fascist.

No, he can't do that in Los Angeles, but the District of Columbia is federal mandate.

So

the ones really in charge of the District of Columbia is the federal government.

He can do

many things that he can't do anywhere else in Washington, D.C.

But of course, they just use this to claim he's a fascist.

No,

it's District of Columbia, but I'll get into that later.

So we're talking about crime and why the teens are becoming worse and worse.

Why?

Why?

How can I say this?

Let me switch this around because we look at it at my age and go, how could you do that?

Let me look at it from I've been raised in the last 16 years,

and

my family went through hell in 2008,

and

they've never really gotten back on their feet.

So I was raised.

I was raised

in a family that is broken, in a society that is broken.

I went to school.

They told me the system is against you.

They taught me how to be,

how to hate people, how to hate people of other races, how to blame things

on everybody else and on the system, how never to take responsibility, and how you've watched your whole life.

Nobody gets punished.

The bad guys don't go to actual jail, you know, at the top level.

And you know what?

Here in the local level, nobody seems to go to jail for it anyway.

I mean, think about

it was 3% of those criminals that used a gun in violent crime in Washington, D.C., 3%

went to jail.

3.

Now, if it was a bunch of white guys carrying guns and not even using them in Washington, D.C., what do you think the percentage would be that they went to jail?

I would say probably closer to 100%.

It's the law, and they don't screw around with it, right?

We got gun violence.

We got to get tough on gun violence.

Why aren't they not getting tough on gun violence?

Nobody's trying to solve this problem.

This is why a Batman always arises.

And we have to be very careful because I've told you we are entering the time of Gotham, that the problems seem overwhelming.

Superman, I told you about that just about 20 minutes ago.

Batman, a defender who sees that the system is completely broken, there is no justice.

So he steps in to do it.

But there's also the other angle, the Punisher.

The Punisher is really more on the left.

We have the, we have, my fear is that we start to believe in a Batman figure on the right, and they believe in a Punisher.

That's really dangerous.

That's not America.

That's really, really, really dangerous.

So

what's happening to us as a society?

Well,

you have taken away every responsibility.

You know why your kids kids are depressed?

And I'm saying this about myself and my own family.

So I'm not pointing fingers at anybody, pointing them to me.

You know when I have low self-esteem?

When I feel that I'm not productive.

When I'm not productive, when I'm not doing something of consequence, when I'm sitting around the house, you know,

doing whatever, playing games, reading frivolous stuff, watching TV.

If I do that for more than a couple of days, I start to feel like really nasty about myself.

I'm like, oh, you know, it's not worth anything.

That's the problem.

We have, by

devaluing capitalism,

what is capitalism?

In a nutshell, what capitalism is, is the right for you to work hard, to have a better idea, to produce that better idea, and then be rewarded for it.

That's capitalism.

Now, it's been conflated with consumerism and corruption and crony capitalism, but the essence is you don't have to have a title.

Everywhere else in the world still, go over in England.

Try to make it on your own.

Really?

Do you have the right English accent?

Do you use the Queen's English?

Where did you go to school?

Who are your parents?

That happens all over the world.

Doesn't happen here.

Because in our system of the free market, you have the right to have an idea and then work hard and produce it.

But in a society where

We have removed all personal responsibility,

you're not responsible for anything.

You took out a loan?

Well, somebody else has got to pay for that.

Well, no, wait, wait, wait.

You were there during the decision.

You and your parents signed those papers.

Now, you may have been misguided, but also, honestly, it's like anybody my age who is like, I can't believe they're going to touch Social Security.

I planned on that.

Well, you may have because you had to.

There's a difference.

If you had to, because I could never get ahead and I paid into into the system, I get it because you paid into the system.

But for anybody who says that and they don't have to rely on it,

it's what are you stupid?

I mean, we all knew this thing is coming.

We all know it's a scam.

All of us know it's a scam.

The closer we get to retirement age, the more we need that scam to stay in place because they bled us dry everywhere else.

We want what we paid in for.

It's the same thing here with capitalism.

When you take away the

personal responsibility, the right to succeed,

and the right to fail.

You notice

they only talk about the right to fail.

They only say, you're not going to fail.

You're going to fail if you go that way.

You're not going to fail with us because we're not going to let you fail.

Failure is a part of life.

The reason why our kids are so tender is we've never let them fail.

We've never said, you know what,

you played your best.

Did you go out and play your best?

Great.

The other team smoked you because they were better.

Oh, no,

you were a superstar out there.

No, you dropped the ball.

Now, I'm not going to harp on that.

I'm not going to beat that into you.

I'm not going to be one of those parents who are like, you dropped the ball.

I'm not that.

But I'm going to tell you the truth.

Because the truth will set you free.

I didn't get the role.

You know why?

Because she's better.

He's better.

Now, what are you going to do to get better at those things so that doesn't happen again?

But if you just say, you know what, the system was rigged against you.

The system may be rigged against you.

That is also part of life.

Somebody else gets the job that you're perfectly qualified for.

And it may just be because of the way they look, because they have a friend who has a friend in the business, whatever it is, that's part of life.

And you need to be resilient enough to understand that.

Instead, all of our problems are the system's fault.

And that takes away all pressure to take action other than

to the streets.

Nobody believes nine to five is worth.

I mean,

kids expect adulthood to be more fun.

Yeah, I did too when I was a kid.

And then I grew up and I'm like, oh, crap.

This is even worse.

Your childhood is the, that's as good as it gets usually.

I mean, unless you're in a really abusive childhood, that's as good as it gets.

You know, and still your whole life is just set up to what?

Recover from childhood because there were so many things that things that happened and you misinterpreted or somebody did something and you're like, oh, I gotta, that's gonna leave a mark for the rest of my life.

We're all just, that's adulthood, trying to

trying to put our childhood into perspective.

And hopefully, you know,

if you have common sense, you have faith, you can do that in pretty short order.

It takes time and it's hard, but you can put that into short order.

But it keeps cropping up.

Mine does.

I'm in the full throes of absolute just like

crazy town right now with things that I thought I had gotten rid of.

And I got to dig them up again and start dealing with them again.

Because I apparently didn't heal enough on a few things.

And then the left romanticizes not working.

Cuba.

Cuba.

You want to live on Cubans?

They romanticize communism.

Do you know anything anything about communism?

No, because they don't teach you anything about communism.

They just say it's better.

And, you know,

ignore their hardships over in Cuba.

It's just better.

Instead of focusing on the hardships over there and saying,

you'd rather have this than that, wouldn't you?

They don't focus on the hardships over there.

They only focus on your hardship here.

And by doing that, you're only creating something, people that have just this giant hole within them, just this emptiness, because they're not working.

Is your kid

sleeping later and later,

playing games all the time on, you know,

on a gaming machine?

and

bummed out all the time, kind of just withdrawing.

You know why?

They think that's normal because that's what everybody does right now.

But that's the cause of the problem.

Nobody said, you know what?

Go pick up a shovel.

How's that?

I told my son, he's in a time between

classes.

And he's like, I don't feel well.

I just, you know, I'm kind of, and I'm like, I get it.

I get it.

Here's an idea.

Go work at a pizza parlor.

Dad, that's not going to solve.

Yes, it is, son.

Yes, it is.

Get up every morning and work until you're butt tired.

And I guarantee you, mentally, you will feel better.

You will feel better.

You're going to probably complain.

Oh.

But you know what?

Everybody did that.

In my day, we all did that.

That's part of life.

That is the value, the true value of work.

Idle hands, devil's workshop.

Why?

It's not because you just get yourself in trouble, but because

you start to be introspective and you start to look at all of the things that you don't have, that you want, that...

and you just fuel this emptiness over and over and over again.

Here's a stat that'll blow your mind.

Life satisfaction.

Life satisfaction.

Are you satisfied with your life?

How much does that marriage affect that?

Marriage has no value.

Family,

no value.

How much in life satisfaction does marriage change

life satisfaction?

545%.

A 545%

increase in life satisfaction with marriage.

By the way,

jobs,

job satisfaction,

145% increase.

We're devaluing the things that give us meaning in our life.

First thing you need to say to your kids, go to work.

Get a job.

Get a job.

Get

a job.

Because you're never going to feel better until you, I mean,

Peterson said it best, until you make your bed and clean your room.

Clean your room, make your bed.

Now, step two, get the hell out of the house and get a job.

When you have a job, you can come back.

You can do whatever.

We'll help you anyway.

Get

a job.

Oh, but that might.

Yeah, it might.

It might.

But I'll tell you, coddling them.

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We'll talk about it later.

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This is the best of the Glenbeck program.

Let me just talk a little bit about what he's going to come out and

talk about.

Crime is out of control.

We talked about this last hour.

The stats on crime, Jason Buttrell, chief researcher, is with me today.

The stats on crime in Washington, D.C.

are off the charts.

Off the charts.

And

if you look over a period that goes back to, like, say, 2010,

there was a reduction around 2023.

But the reduction just gets us back down to basically right when Donald Trump left office.

So if you look at it as a whole, it's still insane.

The White House actually just did a comparison of the 2024 murder rates per 100,000 people.

Washington, D.C.

at 27.54

is larger than Bogota at 15.1.

Jeez.

Mexico City, 10.6.

Islamabad, 9.2.

Lima, 7.6.

Ottawa, 2.17.

Paris, 1.64.

What are we at?

It just keeps D.C.?

27.54.

27.7.

Yeah.

Double, almost three times as much as Islamabad.

Islamabad.

Oh my gosh.

I mean, kind of bad.

Kind of bad.

It's nuts.

So, you know, when they say it's going down, yes, but going down to where, from when,

you have to look at, it's just been out of control for a long time.

And a lot of the stuff we were talking about last hour, if you missed it, go to the podcast and listen to hour number one

of the podcast because we were talking about, you know, kids and what's happening today

and why our kids are turning out the way they're turning out.

And we need to turn a corner on this.

But we'll get back into that here in a second.

Washington, D.C.

is

different.

It is a federal district.

They don't have a governor.

The president is kind of the governor in some ways.

It's not, but in some ways.

The

Congress.

can

overrule things.

In 1973, Congress passed the Home Rule Act.

It granted D.C.

the ability to elect a mayor and a city council.

But Congress can still override all the local laws at any time and even manage the city's budget.

Well, that would be good.

They'd be good at that.

But they didn't even have a mayor until 1973.

Did you know that?

So this is not an American city like you understand it.

This is a failed American experiment, quite honestly.

1973 is when everything changed.

When I went to Washington, D.C.,

1982, maybe, and I was working at WPGC in Washington.

I was, I don't know, 18 years old.

And the license plates back then said,

District of Columbia,

no taxation without representation.

And they were trying to become a state.

They were trying to say, we pay federal taxes.

We want statehood.

So this has been an ongoing battle since since the very, very beginning.

And Washington, D.C., when it comes to policing, it's very complex.

You have the Metropolitan Police, which handles the

everyday policing under the D.C.

mayor and chief of police.

But the Park Police handle

the National Mall and other national park areas in the city, which is a good portion of the city.

Then the U.S.

Capitol Police, which is not under D.C.

rule, Capitol Police, they're supposed to patrol the Capitol complex and the surrounding areas.

Then the Secret Service is in charge of the White House and any of those areas.

Then you have the FBI, the ATF, the U.S.

Marshals that investigate crime in the D.C.

area along with the police.

So

it's not an American city as you understand it.

If Donald Trump was going to say, I'm just going to take over, well, then, you know, maybe you would have a point if it was Chicago.

But that's not what's happening here.

There is no governor, so he can call out the National Guard.

Now, there are things that he can and cannot do.

Here's what the president is allowed to do, and we'll hear what he wants to do.

He can deploy the National Guard for law enforcement, for support for emergencies, crowd controls, and to execute federal laws.

Under the Home Rule Act, the president can assume control of the Metro Police, but only for 48 hours during during special conditions of an emergency nature, and the time period can be extended.

So he may choose to do that and say it's a national emergency or it's a city emergency and then just keep extending it every 48 hours.

He could invoke the Insurrection Act and that way he can deploy military forces to enforce federal law, suppress any kind of insurrection or restore order when civilian authorities can't.

But I don't think he's going to do that because he would have done that in Portland or or Seattle or any of the other crazy places.

Increase the presence of federal law enforcement in D.C., including the FBI, U.S.

Marshals, Capitol Police, and DEA, so he can increase the presence of them.

It also allows him to form an interagency task force under federal authority to conduct operations in D.C.

My guess is that's what he's going to do.

He's going to put an interagency task force on the streets that can conduct

operations in the District of Columbia.

That seems the broadest

and the one that would give him the most authority without any kind of time restrictions on it.

Here's what the president cannot do.

And I want you to know before he speaks, if he suggests any of these,

I will speak out against him because the president cannot do these things.

He can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD.

You do it for 48 hours, and then he has to renew it every 48 hours.

I just don't see that as a workable thing,

but he can't take indefinite control of the Metro PD.

He cannot repeal the Home Rule Act.

Only Congress can alter it or repeal it.

He cannot use active duty military forces beyond the D.C.

National Guard in certain roles

for domestic law enforcement unless authorized by Congress or under specific exemptions like the Insurrection Act.

Okay?

So no active duty can go on.

National Guard can, but only in certain roles.

And he also cannot make any changes to D.C.'s local criminal laws or police policies.

Only Congress can make those changes.

So if you're talking about a fascist,

that would be the mark of a fascist if he says we're going to do that.

If he says we want to change the criminal laws, he is absolutely

within his

jurisdiction, if you will, to say I'm going to pass some new criminal laws, but Congress has to do them.

He can't just sign executive orders and do those.

He has to have Congress to do those.

And that last thing on the EO, I'm not really sure.

I'm not a big fan of executive orders.

I don't know how far those things have been expanded in the last 25 years,

but I would hope that it is not going to be, because that should be challenged.

And

I don't know how that would work out.

What I would love to see him do, I know he can't

overrun the Home Roll Act, but I would love to see him use that bully pulpit to bully pulpit the crap out of the Home Roll Act to really do a full court press and get rid of it.

Because in my opinion, it's an abomination.

It's not what the framers had in mind.

It should not be there.

And I think the only, I mean, there's multiple reasons why you can say why we have the Home Rule Act.

It's not supposed to be that way.

It's supposed to be a way to where Congress, which is a joke, because I think Congress gave it up because why?

They're doing the thing that they always do, which is skirt responsibility.

Disagree.

I was alive at the time.

Disagree.

When they got it, what did the license plates change to immediately?

What was it?

No taxation without representation.

That was a move towards statehood.

That was a progressive

give us home rule.

Agreed.

And then

we need to have a governor.

We need to have a state.

We need to have representation in Washington, D.C.

This has all been a move to make Washington, D.C.

a

state when our founders thought that was absolutely the wrong thing to do.

We cannot have our capital in a state.

It has to be a district.

But run by

the federal government.

But they basically already have it.

They have the benefits without it actually being a state because in the 1960s, they were given three electoral votes.

You want to guess how many times that the District of Columbia has gone towards Republicans and Republicans have gotten?

I'm going to take a guess.

Zero?

Zero.

Zero.

Zero.

Right.

Just insane.

Yeah.

So

this is not fascism.

You need to understand that.

Right.

You need to understand Home Rule change 1973.

Just remember that.

Home Rule 1973.

That gave them the ability to have a mayor and a city council.

They never had one until 1973.

This is a failed American experiment.

It has become more and more leftist.

And the more leftist it gets, the more out of control that city gets.

Congress should abolish home rule.

It should go back to Congress and the president running that city.

They're very capable of doing it.

And the only reason to have home rule is to make it a state.

That's the only reason.

I mean, and honestly, look at that.

Look at the mayors.

Anybody remember Marion Berry?

Marion Berry was caught smoking crack and they re-elected him.

I mean, he went to prison, I think, and then he got out of prison.

He's like, yeah, remember me?

I'm the crack guy.

yeah elect me again and they did

i mean it's it's an insane city it's an insane city and our capital cannot i remember you know when i was living in washington dc i was a kid 18 years old all by myself never

i had never been west of boise or east of boise idaho Okay.

And I move across the country and I move to Washington, D.C.

It was the freakiest place I had ever been.

I'd never seen an East Coast city.

I had never, I mean, yeah.

But I remember I got up every morning and I would go to the Lincoln Memorial and I would sit on the stairs of the Lincoln Memorial, watch the sunrise and in the summer, and they would hose that thing down,

fire hoses, and they'd hose that thing down.

I don't think that's been washed in, I don't know, maybe since 1983.

And I could walk the whole mall in the middle of the night.

I could walk up to the Capitol doors and these beautiful relief doors that tell the story of America.

You can't even walk up the stairs to those doors.

You are no longer allowed to even see those doors, okay, because of security.

And what is that security giving you?

That security is giving you maybe some security inside the Capitol, but everybody else, you're on your own.

Well, that's my city as well.

I am so proud of this audience.

I remember when we went and we did

Restoring Honor there.

And the National Park Service called the office and said,

could you please ask Mr.

Beck

to please ask his audience to stop calling us?

You know

why this audience was calling?

Because people had gone up and they had seen how badly it was being run and how the park service didn't wasn't mowing all the lawns and everything else so this audience volunteered over and over and over again saying can we just come up and mow the lawn can we just we'll clean it all up we just want to mow the lawns in washington dc

And the park service was like, we can't let people just come out on the lawn.

And I'm like, you know what?

You should.

You should.

If the people can fix it and you can't, let the people fix it.

It's their own, it's their own place.

You can't do things in Washington, D.C.

And it's really not for your safety.

They'll say it's for your safety, but it's not.

And it has separated the people

from that city.

And now you go walking down the street.

Good luck.

I go walking down the street with my wife at night because I have armed security with me.

I'm not walking down that street by myself, nor would you.

You want to go to Washington, D.C.

and see the founding documents?

Good luck with that.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

I want to talk to you.

We've been talking today about

the system and what is happening to our kids.

What's happening to our world?

And Jason and I, I think we were were kind of you know at this place where

when I was a kid

I was lucky enough my mom and my dad never said you can't make it my dad believed in the power of positive thinking

and he believed in words create a force and they do what you think becomes what you speak becomes you say it enough and it becomes

And so my father was always like, you're going to make it.

Whatever you set your mind to, if you do the work and you can visualize it, it will happen.

I've been talking to some people about some things and they were like, Glenn, we know your record.

If you see it, it's done.

And it is truly.

That is one of my superpowers that my dad gave me was visualize it.

If you can see it done,

it will be done.

You have to put all the work into it, but it will be done.

When When your vision is murky or cloudy,

you're going to create more murky and cloudy.

You have to have a super clear vision on things.

But I know that everybody around me, my dad said, you should just have a backup, son, because radio is not a really good industry to get into for success.

And I know, I mean, the odds of you being a talk radio national guy, there's what, five of us, six of us?

Not even that maybe four of us left um the odds hollywood looks like easy to get into compared to this and my dad was right now everybody else in my life said you'll never make it loser you'll never make it but i

i set out because i knew what i could accomplish and i also

I also wanted to prove people wrong.

And I'm not sure.

That's a very American thing.

You know, when you set out to go, really?

You think I can't do that?

Oh, I will.

I mean, how many people cross the mountains because somebody in their life is like, you're never going to cross those mountains?

Oh, yeah.

It's a very, maybe it's childish, but it's also a very American thing to do.

And when we take that, what's left, Jason?

If your kids don't have that,

I'm going to prove it.

I can prove it.

You become what?

Europe?

An average, who cares country, pretty much.

Yeah.

Like Europe.

Like Europe.

Exactly.

They don't believe they can change things because they've been conditioned to believe the system won't allow it.

And they've allowed a system to be created around them.

Now, we were the first to break that.

And nobody's really broken that except us.

Nobody went

the full Monty like the United States did.

And

that's what built people in my generation and all the generations before.

But we don't have that foundation being

taught or even extolled by anybody.

I mean, now the slogans are, you know, capitalism is just greedy.

Capitalism

exploits.

Capitalism is the reason why you're miserable.

No, no, you're miserable because you're thinking about your misery.

I mean,

it's an easy easy thing to say when you've never had to live without it, and our kids have never had to live without it.

Capitalism is not just an economic system.

It is a moral revolution.

And I don't think we frame it that way enough.

You know, for the first time in human history, your destiny was not locked into what family you were born into.

Did you come from wealth and wild success?

Oh, no.

Yeah.

I didn't.

I mean, I mean,

honestly, I've looked into my genealogy.

It is a loser city.

I am the king of the loser people.

There's not a single person that did anything in my genealogy at all.

Me included.

But I'm like the king of all of the people.

Nobody.

Nobody.

I mean, really, one of the relatives that I hang on to, my great-great-grandfather and great-great-uncle, you know what they did?

They were captured by the South in the Civil War after a week of fighting.

And one of them died in Andersonville.

I mean, that's how, I mean, that's how low you got to go.

You're like, yeah, but one of my, two of my relatives were fighting for the North.

Of course, got captured in the first week and one of them died in prison.

But

they are on the right side.

That's how low it is.

How could somebody like me make it?

You listen to this show.

You can't figure it out, right?

It's America.

It's America.

Hard work, vision, and honestly, luck.

They all come.

But for the first time, America gave that opportunity.

You didn't need a king's permission to own land.

Over in England, all of that's king's land.

And then it was granted to the lords and the ladies.

And if they ever wanted to sell it, they could sell it.

It used to be that it had to go back to the king.

But

here you don't need to be nobility.

You had to be noble to be able to open a business overseas.

You didn't have to be born into privilege to invent, to create, to rise.

You know why everybody over in England had such bad teeth for so long?

Because if anybody would have invented the toothbrush and toothpaste, a lord or lady would have gotten all of the royalties for it.

You're just a peasant.

You're like, you know what?

I'd like some minty breath next time I kiss you.

You're not going to get the royalties from it.

You're not going to get anything except a minty kiss, which quite honestly would be enough for me to invent the toothbrush.

But that's just me speaking from today's point of view.

Capitalism was the one that just broke all of the chains of feudalism and said to the world, if you have an idea, if you have a dream, Try it.

May not succeed, but try it.

It never promised you success.

It gave you something much more valuable, and that is the chance.

Who is striving for the chance?

There have been no rich people, except those who were born noble or into wealth.

There's nobody that has become rich that wasn't looking for a chance.

They weren't doing, you didn't win it by lottery, and you certainly didn't do it for long through theft.

I mean, you, for almost the entirety of world history, people lived in gut-grinding poverty.

You didn't live past 30 years.

There was no middle class.

That's a function of capitalism.

No middle class, no social mobility.

You didn't go from the lower class to the upper class.

Didn't happen.

Only capitalism did that.

Now, Now, has it been distorted and perverted?

Yes, by whom?

The people who want to treat you like a serf.

The people who are like, they don't know.

I know better than them.

They're too stupid to rule themselves.

The same people that have enslaved the rest of the world for all of humanity are now winning the argument?

That this isn't good.

You know what you need?

Somebody like me to make all the decisions for you and then take all the money in the end

Wow.

I mean, this is a very short window of time.

Child labor used to be a necessity.

It was a necessity.

You would be out on your ear when you were 12 or 13.

Nobody could,

you had to fend for yourself.

You don't anymore.

You don't.

Why?

Because of capitalism.

All of the inventions that we we take for granted, the light bulb, antibiotics, the internet, it all came into the world because people were free to dream and do.

Are we encouraging our kids to dream and do?

If you are a 20-something, forget about all of this crap that everybody's telling you.

Dream and do it.

What's stopping you?

Honestly, what's stopping you besides fear?

What is stopping you?

I got to, you know, I'm making massive changes in my life.

And I got to a place to where, you know, my wife and I prayed on it and everything else.

But before we pray on it, we always try to make the decision and then bring it to dad and say, hey, what do you think of this?

Because I know as a dad, I don't want my kids to come at me and you go, what should I do now, dad?

I don't know.

Think it through.

What do you think is the best thing?

And then I could go,

great idea.

Have you thought about this?

So I approach God the same way.

Why do you think, Dad?

And he'll be like,

boy, I can't believe you're still alive.

And of all of the natural selection, I didn't think you would have survived.

Do you know about your great-great-grandparents?

Anyway,

I'm making these changes in my life.

And before we brought it to God, Tanya said, what do you think?

And I I said, I keep making the list in my head pros and cons.

And all of the negatives, they're all based in fear.

They're all based in fear.

And she just looked at me and I went, I know, I know, I know.

That's the worst reason to have.

If it's fear-based, get rid of that.

Don't make a decision ever based in fear.

Ever, ever, ever.

You will make a bad decision.

Make a decision based in love or in hope.

Based in fact, not just like, you know what?

I hope my butt starts growing flowers because then my farts

won't smell so bad.

That ain't going to happen, okay?

Real hope based in something.

That, when you have that, you can change the world.

And it's a ripple effect.

When a guy in Ohio figured out how to mass produce steel,

It built railroads in India, not just here, in India.

When a woman in America developed a new vaccine, children in Africa lived to see adulthood.

Capitalism doesn't just create wealth, it spreads it over oceans and continents and through generations.

The inequalities of capitalism.

They point to that as if that's proof it's broken, but the truth, under capitalism, the poor today live better than the kings of the past.

Do you know there was a

well, let me just go here because I'm going to run out of time.

King Louis didn't have air conditioning.

You know where that was invented?

San Antonio.

You know where it was first put in?

A movie theater.

Do you know why?

Have you been to a building in San Antonio, Texas in the summer?

You want to kill yourself.

I would relish, if that's how I would live, I'd be like, can we make the life expectancy only 30?

Because I don't think I can do this another 30 years.

I mean, for the love of Pete,

it came because people went, there's got to be a better way.

And you didn't need a king.

The king didn't have air conditioning.

Queen Victoria didn't have any antibiotics.

You know,

through just opening up a faucet, you couldn't have clean water arrive at your home.

And that's not the work of a dictator.

That is the work of millions of people thinking, dreaming, trading freely, innovating, competing, and not for the glory of the state, but the hope of what?

Why do they say people come here?

To build a better life for themselves and their families.

Why can you use that as, you know what?

You just against illegals.

All they're trying to do is make a better life for themselves and their family.

Wait, are you saying they can't do it here, but they can't do it there, but somehow or another under this system, which is oppressing you, they can make it?

What do they have that you don't have?

Oh, I know.

Work ethic.

A dream.

A desire.

They've seen the other side.

They don't want to live like that.

Capital isn't perfect, but it is human.

And anything human can be corrupted.

But compared to every other system in the world, it has taken more people out of poverty, rewarded more hard work, and transformed more nobodies

than any other system the world has even imagined.

And I say that as the king of nobodies.

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