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Hey, podcast today, kind of super informative.

We do talk about Super Tuesday, but there's not a lot of suspense there.

I'm going to make a prediction.

Okay.

Go way out on a limb.

Trump wins the majority, as does Joe Biden.

What?

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

I think Marianne Williamson is back on the race.

She's going to make a run.

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So it looks like nostalgia is here,

and it also looks like the economy is best handled by Donald Trump, at least according to the latest polls.

Now,

let's get away from the polls and let's talk about some facts.

The Democrats are absolutely bat crap crazy on doing everything they can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become President of the United States.

The Colorado Democrat, the Secretary of State, Jenna Griswold,

was on MSNBC.

Do we happen to have that video?

Listen.

My larger reaction is disappointment.

I do believe that states should be able under our Constitution to bar oath-breaking insurrectionists.

And ultimately, this decision leaves open or leaves open the door for Congress to act to pass authorizing legislation.

But we know that Congress is a nearly non-functioning body.

So ultimately, it will be up to the American voters to save our democracy in November.

No, ultimately, it'll be.

That's crazy.

Why would we do that?

I don't have any idea.

Voters have something to say about that.

Man, leaving democracy up to the voters?

The voters don't know anything about democracy.

You know, that one vote, one person, you know,

that kind of system.

What do they know about that?

We need to get back to the truest form of democracy where the people don't participate and there's only one name on the ballot.

That's democracy.

Thank you, Saddam Hussein.

That's exactly democracy.

Okay, so we have David French now writing for the New York Times, and I just have to give, I just, this is David French,

as of Monday, March 4th, 2024, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution is essentially a dead letter, at least as it applies to candidates for federal office.

Under the U.S.

Supreme Court's ruling that reversed the Colorado Supreme Court's decision striking Donald Trump from the state's primary ballot.

Even insurrectionists who have violated their previous oath of office can hold federal office unless and until Congress passes specific legislation to enforce Section 3.

So now we're depending on either the people or the people's representatives to do this statement.

Isn't that nice?

Come on.

In the aftermath of the oral argument last month, legal observers knew with near certainty that the Supreme Court was unlikely to apply Section 3 to Trump.

A narrow ruling for Trump might have held, for example, that Colorado didn't provide him with enough due process when it determined that Section 3 applied.

Or the court could have held that Trump as president was not an officer of the United States within the meaning of the section.

Such a ruling would have kept Trump on the ballot, but it would have also kept Section 3 viable to block insurrectionists

from the House or Senate, from all other federal offices.

But somewhat, a somewhat broader ruling might have held that Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion or provide aid and comfort to the enemies of the Constitution.

Oh my God.

Aid and comfort?

Aid and comfort?

You want to talk about aid and comfort?

Really?

How about all of the people that

were helping and encouraging people to burn our cities to the ground and let the rioters off?

In fact, our own vice president that was raising money to make sure that bail was covered for anybody.

Does that seem like aiding and abetting chaos?

How about in Portland, those people in our own government

that were endorsing and allowing the FBI to be trapped in their own building, trying to burn down a federal courthouse?

Was there any aiding or abetting?

How about all the Soros AGs?

Any aiding and abetting for chaos there?

Things that do not benefit or follow the Constitution of the United States?

How How about those like Soros and the NGOs that have aided and abetted those involved in the southern and now northern invasion of the United States?

How about all of those that have subverted the Bill of Rights to create a public-private partnership with the mainstream media and social media to subvert the voices of the American people?

Or those who have just been elected in office that have actively, actively co-opted our intel agencies against the American Constitution and spy on the American people.

Is there anything about aiding and embedding the people who are against the Constitution there?

Or is it just him?

Look, here's the thing on this.

If any state court, D.C.

or New York, can declare that an enemy of the Constitution exists in this person.

What would stop Texas from doing the same thing to Joe Biden?

Nothing.

Nothing would.

While Congress is deeply flawed, it is at least a collection of state representatives.

All 50 states are represented there.

While it is flawed and at times they themselves could be deemed an enemy of the Constitution, as few seem to really honor the Constitution or even understand it.

It's at least a body, a national body made up of representatives from all of the states.

Texas should not be allowed to take Biden off the ballot, and neither should Colorado or any other state.

If you want that game to be played, that's fine, it's unconstitutional, but if you play that game, then Texas and others will have to play it against you.

But only as as a defense, not as a valid constitutional principle.

Will this, if we played that game for those who voted differently than I did,

let's think this through.

Will that

aid

to

our Constitution?

Will that aid our democracy or will it will it create a more stable nation or a more perfect nation?

Does this promote domestic tranquility

or domestic chaos?

What is a democracy?

Well, we're not.

We're not a democracy.

A democracy is one man, one vote.

We're a democratic republic.

So the democracy part happens

Like today, we all go out and we vote.

One man, one vote.

You let the people decide on their representatives, and then the republic kicks in.

Logic dictates you cannot defend democracy if you're trying to remove your competitor from the ballot.

Trust the will of the people.

And if you've voted for Biden,

have you ever heard me say, We got to get rid of anybody by any means possible?

Never.

I've never said that.

There have been occasional arguments on the right about removing Barack Obama from the presidency.

Constitutional means only.

I know, but what I'm saying is you oppose those efforts.

You said, no, those aren't right.

I mean, not that the rule itself wasn't right, but that it was not accurate, that you could pull him off the ballot for those things.

I mean,

I,

this might be the sports fan in me, but I want to win.

I have this weird idea that your candidate should go out and actually win the election.

You shouldn't be depending on some quirky rules change that might be able to get you through in an unopposed race.

Go out and win.

Go out and freaking win.

You're calling this guy Hitler every two days.

Go out and beat Hitler then.

This is not 1935 Germany.

Go out and win.

That should not be that that difficult if this guy is as bad as you say he is.

And if he's as bad as he say he is, then

show the evidence.

You don't come up with evidence ever.

When he was first impeached, I gave my research staff a very clear directive.

Follow the truth no matter where it leads.

If he has done something wrong, then expose it and we will demand justice.

If not, lead with that and demand justice.

Any honest person who votes differently than I do has got to admit the Justice Department has been perverted.

Equal justice no longer exists.

And this is the real key here to understand everything that we've been dealing with, everything we've been talking about,

that the left and the mainstream media said don't matter.

CRT, all the garbage that has been shoveled.

Equal equality, different than equity.

If you overlook facts

and you just look at somebody's opinion or their race or their gender or their sexual orientation and a ruling is made based on that, you're trying to serve social justice, not equal justice.

Just as anti-racism preaches you have to be racist to fight racism, it makes no sense This social justice uses injustice to fight so-called injustice.

Only equal justice

can repair an injustice.

Equal justice, blind justice, it's the best man can strive for.

But instead of doubling our efforts, instead of setting the bar that man has allowed himself to step over, we should raise the standard and never let anyone from any side slide under it.

Will we work together for equal justice, one where Hunter Biden could get a fair trial in the reddest of states, and Trump could get a fair trial in the bluest of states?

Until we restore truth and equal justice, we will all only continue to promote domestic chaos.

And that should not be our goal.

I mean, even they know this.

Those on the left know this.

And I know my Democratic friends,

if they would just get past all of the garbage that the media is shoveling and look at the actual facts, even Mark Elias, the left-wing election disruptor,

he even said that Donald Trump cannot get an impartial jury trial in Washington, D.C.

This is the guy whose legal campaigns are often funded by George Soros.

He posted a screenshot on X of a headline announcing that South Carolina Nikki Haley won her first primary in the 2024 election in D.C.

And he said, in a city of 700,000, Donald Trump got 676 votes in the GOP primary.

Quote, a tough jury pool.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

That's why the Bill of Rights exists.

A change of venue would only be fair because

you cannot find people in, except for the 676, you cannot find people

that would balance your jury out

and until we can be on a jury and sit there and not let our personal feelings about Hunter Biden Joe Biden or Donald Trump

until we can say no I can divorce myself from all of that

We don't have a chance of having a republic.

It takes honest people

who actually understand honor and strive for it.

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All right, we have Carol Roth with us.

Carol Roth is a good friend of the program and also the author of You Will Own Nothing, former investment banker, now cares about Main Street.

Carol, how are you?

Doing well, Glenn.

You seem a little feisty today, and I always enjoy feisty, Glenn.

Yeah, well, this should be good.

Well, I tell you, the cookie monster really pissed me off today because there's no way that that's a coincidence.

That's coordinated propaganda from the White House.

Well, I feel like Cookie Monster was the one who got it right.

Cookie Monster is not the one who blamed the corporations.

I believe it was Joe Biden, right?

He just said that his cookies were getting smaller because of shrinkflation.

And I think that makes him a better economist than anyone in the Biden administration or in the New York Times,

you know, for that matter.

But the reality is that this is a Biden talking point.

So they picked up on this and they said, no, no, Cookie Monster, shrinkflation is happening because of the greedy corporations so so today they're launching something and Carol I want to get your your read on this this seems a little terrifying Joe Biden today is launching a new task force to take on unfair and illegal corporate pricing which Biden sees as a major reason why consumers are not yet feeling the impact of a cooling inflation rate.

The task force will jointly be led by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of justice two agencies at the forefront of the biden administration's aggressive regulatory agenda over the past three years uh uh

wow what what what are these illegal

uh what do they say illegal illegal and unfair and unfair illegal and unfair thing okay fair unfair is anything that uh biden says doesn't go along with his narrative.

And he's really talking out of both sides of his mouth or perhaps mumbling out of both sides of his mouth because on one hand he's touting how much the economy is growing that things are going well that wages are increasing so if that was the case corporations should be doing better and there is no corporation that is making any sort of outsize profits things like shrinkflation and what's happening are downstream issues from the inflation that the Biden administration caused and certainly the Fed caused.

So to now say we're going to have a task force that is going to look up unfair and illegal pricing practices, you know, legal is one thing and there's a certain definition, at least today, who knows what that could be expanded to.

But unfair is obviously anything that they don't happen to like or agree with or is against their policy.

And one of the things that we know in economics, just across the board, is that price controls don't work.

That's something that creates rationing, goods shortages.

Even

Paul Krugman, who gets every single thing wrong, the one thing he has ever gotten right is he is against rent control, which is one form, one of many forms of price controls.

So even he kind of gets the fact that price controls don't work.

Everyone, pretty much across the board, agrees with that.

But now they want to come in as the government and step in and say, oh, you're earning too much of a profit.

We don't like what you're doing.

You need to lower your prices, even though we're imposing this different world upon you.

And that is a recipe for disaster and is obviously completely the opposite of free market capitalism.

Right.

It is a fascistic move.

When the government tells companies what to do,

it's a move that fascists make.

I'm concerned about this because

with all the public-private partnerships, the ones that are going to get into trouble are not the ones that are doing the bidding of the American government now.

Let me give you an example.

New York State Attorney Letitia James has now filed suit against JBS USA Food Company.

This is the world's largest beef producer, accusing it of fraudulent and illegal business activities and disgorgement of all profits and ill-gotten gains.

She's using the state's apparatus to go after beef producers, but not for any other reason other than they say they are shooting for zero emissions by 2040.

And she says that's fraud.

Yes, she's accusing them of what's quote-unquote greenwashing.

So the state has put these ridiculous parameters around different companies.

The companies, as we knew, or had known, leaned into those and wanted to sound like they were complying.

And so they said, oh, we're going to to do all of these things to help the environment.

So now she's saying, No, it's fraudulent.

You haven't done the things that we said, or at least in the way that we said.

And, you know, with JBS, it's a little bit tough, obviously, because they're this huge corporate conglomerate.

And in some cases, they may have

created some issues with the independent farmers.

Oh, yeah.

But either way, you know, you're not rooting for the state here to come in.

And this disgorgement of profits sounds, by the way, Glenn, a lot like what happened to Donald Trump.

So So, this is anything that he was made, we're going to confiscate.

First, New York came for the National Rifle Association.

I didn't say anything because I didn't own a rifle.

I wasn't a hunter and I disagree with guns.

Then they came for Donald Trump, but I didn't vote for him, so it didn't matter.

Now they're coming for beef.

And, you know, you could go after JBS for unfair business practices, in my opinion.

Sure.

Because I'm a rancher and I see these,

I believe there's absolute collusion with the three companies that are producing all of the beef in the country.

They're getting rich, the farmers are getting poorer, the ranchers are getting poorer.

So I think you could go after that, but it would have to be legitimate.

You'd have to have the actual, I don't have the facts.

You could go after them for that and break that monopoly up, which I think is fair.

But she's not, she's talking about the rainforest.

What the hell does the rainforest have to do with New York?

Well, and not only that, so think about this is this is very war on small business-like, right?

Because these bigger companies will have the capital base and the power to withstand, at least the first time around, some of these, you know,

tests from the state.

But if you are an independent farmer or you are a small business in some other arena, and they come after you, that's it.

You are wiped off the map, which just further consolidates, does exactly the opposite of the thing that you just talked talked about.

You know, it doesn't create this, you know, more fair playing field.

It creates these tighter monopolies and duopolies.

So this is almost like a warning sign to say, hey, maybe you want to get out of this business because, you know, we're coming after you.

And that seems like the plan.

They want to capture and control more and more of our resources and bring it more along with the state.

And they're finding all of these, frankly, unconstitutional ways and banana republic-y sort of ways to do it.

I gotta do it.

They have to stand up.

You gotta get out of New York because they're just going the wrong way.

And Carol, I'd love your and Stu.

I think you know a little bit more about this too.

This is the future.

Litigation is the way the left is moving.

They are going to overwhelm the system with lawsuits on anything they disagree.

They're just going to take us.

Look what they're doing to Donald Trump.

That's going to happen everywhere.

Yeah, lawfare is definitely the strategy, right?

They keep coming out and they push these things down the throats of everybody.

And then what's the response?

Like the good outcome is you spend years and years and years litigating and spend tons and tons and tons of money defending yourself.

You're not furthering the economy.

You're not furthering your business.

You're not helping anybody.

You're not making products that benefit anyone.

You're just in constant defense mode.

And how do you advance yourself that way?

And you have to have the capital base to be able to do that.

I mean, this is not something that is, you know, for the faint of heart or, you know, if you don't have enough dollars in the bank, this is a very expensive endeavor to be able to fight this.

And so you come out the other end and it's not guaranteed that you're going to get restitution for your legal fees or anything else for that matter.

It's like, oh, sorry, I guess we didn't win this particular one.

Or you end up in, you know, sort of a corrupt area and they do end up winning on something that's baseless, as we saw happen in New York.

And so it is very frightening for anybody who has a business.

So let me ask you, Hochul came out last time under Donald Trump and said, don't worry, you're for business.

This is Donald Trump specific.

No, no,

no.

This is exactly, they're targeting a business they don't like and they're trying to take it down with everything the state has in its power.

When does New York cross the Rubicon and businesses just say, I am out of here?

When does New York collapse economically?

It's a really good question.

I mean, certainly as a test run, I do think that people, you know, particularly New York has a lot of liberal people who believe that it will not happen to them.

We did see mass movement during COVID, people who said, I've had enough with these policies.

Certainly the cost, the crime, all of those other issues have seen a mass exodus out of the state to places like Florida.

But for the people who remain and say, you know, that, nope, this is my home.

This is the, you know, the heartbeat of my soul or whatever it is, they just aren't going to believe that it is going to happen to them until it happens to one of them.

And then, of course, they make another set of excuses saying, well, you know, this was different.

And I just think that's one of the big issues with this country where we have a lot of people who are in denial and decoupled with reality and don't understand and don't want to frankly understand

the reality of what is happening here, Glenn.

So

let me go back to this

tribunal that

the president is starting today with the Department of Justice and the FTC.

This again,

I hate to be such a cynic, but

I have no reason not to be in this case.

They're going to target the companies that are not falling in line with them.

And

how are we going to fight this one?

What should these companies do?

And what should the average person do to prepare?

Because

this is really going to go right to the heart of capitalism.

Yeah, I mean, I think that the one piece of good news is that the courts are also working in some cases in the other way.

And there are groups like Pacific Legal Foundation and others who are these nonprofits that will stand up for businesses and individual rights.

We just saw a at least interim win, that corporate transparency act that we had talked about, the financial crimes network that was mass targeting small businesses.

Over the weekend, the Alabama courts had ruled or came out over the weekend that they had ruled that it was unconstitutional.

Now, certainly we imagine that the treasury is going to fight that, but if that holds, that shows that there's a win.

So there will be, I think, these marquee opportunities to push back.

But unfortunately, it's just exhausting because it's like, you know, you, you go and you, you kill the ants and you think that you've got everything done.

And then the rain comes and then you've got a whole new, you know, group of them coming back out.

So I think that we have to stay vigilant and we have to use our voices because the places where people have spoken up and have said this is an issue across the board, whether it's to politicians, whether it's to Wall Street, wherever it is, those are the places where they've backed out off.

And certainly they've gone somewhere else.

But, you know, things like messing with our food supply, that is an absolute no and something that everybody should be using.

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All right.

Let me change the subject here a little bit

to

To a sequence of events.

See if you can identify the sequence of events.

Okay.

A clandestine operation was launched to initiate a coup.

Russians didn't like that.

Military buildup in the smaller country commenced.

That included a flood of weapons.

They were mostly defensive to start, but information and pictures started to come out, and it began to leak out that the longer-range offensive weapons were about to enter the game.

Global thermonuclear war seemed innocent or imminent.

What?

Not imminent.

Innocent.

It would be a weird explanation for that.

What situation am I talking about?

1960s.

Okay.

Cuban missile crisis.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

You could also think,

it might be NATO.

It might be NATO.

Last week, France made an insane statement,

said that NATO troops could actually deploy and engage in Ukraine.

Okay.

Well,

that's a tripwire for

Vladimir Putin.

And it would be the same kind of thing because we found out something else over the weekend.

The roles are reversed, but history is repeating itself in the Cuban Missile Crisis, I believe.

As the Russians were flocking to the funeral of Navalny, which was incredible, because

you can't go to the funeral.

Not supposed to go to the funeral.

Not supposed to show up.

We can put you in jail.

Thousands of people went to the funeral it was amazing while they that was going on the russians decide decided to divert everybody's attention by leaking an audio clip from german military leaders

okay now they released it on russia today let's stop there any intelligence related from russia that's being published through rt or russia today is clearly a russian government operation so it's propaganda let's make sure everybody understands that.

Russia wanted eyes diverted from the death of the main rival of Putin,

but it doesn't discount everything that was revealed.

The audio that was released over the weekend, I don't know if you paid attention to it, was of German officials discussing the deployment and use of medium to long-range cruise missiles in Ukraine.

The only use of these missiles would be to strike targets offensively within Russia.

They even discussed a potential attack on the bridges that connect the mainland of Russia to Crimea.

And they were very

specific.

Now let me pause again for a second.

Offensive missiles of this caliber are what triggered the Cuban missile crisis.

We could not, we've never been closer to a nuclear war than that time.

Missiles close enough to hit the United States and Cuba could be tipped with nuclear warheads.

At the very least, they could have been used by a proxy, Cuba, to attack strategic targets here in our homeland.

That was our red line.

Russia has the same red line.

Okay?

And are we doing the same thing now?

There's been some reporting on this.

Audio appears to be authentic.

And when I say they were contemplating, it's not surprising to me that the German military heads are talking through the possibility of how they would deploy weapons in case of a war.

That's their job.

But can you not do it on WhatsApp?

Last week, as the president of France was talking about deploying NATO troops, the German chancellor was under fire for expressing reluctance to deploy longer-range cruise missiles to Ukraine.

The issue in Germany has now reached the boiling point, threatening to fracture the chancellor's ruling coalition.

Then the audio leaked.

There are games within games within games that are being played here.

There are so many troublesome things here, it's hard to know where to start.

But first,

the Russians are releasing this audio tape this last weekend to make it look like a NATO country was already committed to strike Russia on her own territory.

That's known as World War III.

But that's not what the audio reveals.

It reveals that NATO military leaders are at the very least talking about it.

They're trying to find out how they could deploy these weapons, but also, as the audio reveals, leave the least amount of footprint.

We didn't give those audio.

Oh, geez.

What the Russians are not including is that the political decision to do this has not been made.

I'm not saying the decision won't eventually be made, but that's the entire context here.

Second,

why was this call made on WhatsApp?

Why?

Why?

Why would they do that?

Lastly, we've been waiting for someone, literally anyone, to take a step back and call for de-escalation.

That is clearly now not the mindset of NATO.

In the case of Germany, there's a big push to

escalate further.

Germany is not the one that Russians will look on kindly.

Leningrad.

History

is always forgotten by the people who should be studying it the most.

Cuba, a proxy, could have been the linchpin for World War III.

Ukraine is a proxy.

Will it be the linchpin for World War III?

Or will cooler heads prevail?

I'm still waiting for somebody to lead on this and lead to a table of peace.

So far, that person is absent.

How long can the world afford this march toward war?

And insane.

Every single human on the planet, everybody in Russia, everybody in Ukraine, everybody in America, in France, they're all saying the same things.

Let's not blow up the planet, boys.

What do you say we back away from this?

Everybody, everybody who's just a casual observer,

everybody who, A, loves the planet, likes free, you know, clean air and clean water, we don't want the planet to be irradiated.

You don't have to be a greenie to believe that.

But our governments are not listening to us.

We should be very, very well aware of what is happening in the halls all over NATO.

They don't seem to be on the same page as the people.

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