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You know, sometimes

it feels like there is no God, Stu.

You know what I mean?

Wow,

that's quite the statement.

I know.

Have you ever felt that way?

I don't think.

I mean, you're just saying that things are so dark.

Things are so dark.

Things go wrong, and you're like, why?

If there is a God, why is this happening?

You know, good people, why do bad things happen?

Happen to go?

Sure, everyone's had thoughts, I guess, like that.

So, I mean, let me just posit this here, okay?

If there is a God,

why would the Fonnie Willis

information about

her scandal and what we now have in phone records, why would that break five minutes before we were off this podcast?

It's a great point.

Luckily, we'll have time to talk about it on your TV show at Blazetv.com/slash Glenn today because that is this is a

remarkable story.

We're going to have all weekend to stew on this and get more information.

Wait until Monday's podcast.

Today's podcast was really, really important,

really good.

There's stuff about radio that I know you think this may not matter to you, but it does.

There were several things, and Tennessee is another story that we talked about today.

There's a bill going on in Tennessee that is going to stop ESG, second most important.

It's voted on in committee, the banking committee, next week.

There's zero coverage of this in Tennessee, like no coverage of it.

So there's no support from the populace.

But you need to know about that.

Also, central bank digital currency, this crazy thing from MSNBC.

This is a good show.

It's a lot of really good stuff on this one about a good one.

It's a good one.

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To give you a mile marker,

I feel like part of my

job is to inform you

what direction are we going in and how fast are we going?

Let me give you a couple of stories here that are gravely, gravely concerning.

I told you last week, the Soros Fund management,

you know, run by billionaire George Soros and his son, have now taken control or are on the verge of taking control of Odyssey.

Odyssey is the second largest radio broadcaster in America.

Only iHeartRadio owns more.

And thank God, at this point,

iHeart Media, iHeartRadio has the premier radio networks.

I've worked for this company in one way or another since 1989.

They are my partner with this broadcast, and they have been always very, very supportive.

If it wasn't for my partners,

Julie Talbot and Dan Meader and

all of the people at iHeart Media,

this show wouldn't be heard anywhere.

So iHeart is the only one right now not under attack.

And I'll tell you about this.

First, Odyssey.

Odyssey amassed $1.9 billion in debt.

They filed for bankruptcy.

And now Soros

is taking on

the fund, and they will be the largest shareholder once the bankruptcy proceedings conclude.

Where

are we?

They're dismantling radio.

and buying radio up.

Now, Soros has already bought, what, last year, I think 50 radio stations that were all Spanish speaking.

Gee, isn't that interesting?

Now he's buying up the second largest broadcaster in America.

Odyssey owns 220 stations, News Talk

in New York,

Chicago, Los Angeles, all of some of the biggest News Talk stations in the country.

They own the radio stations,

including KDWN AM in Las Vegas, PHT, Philadelphia, KDKA in Pittsburgh.

They have Dana Lash on many of their stations.

They have Sean Hannity.

They have Mark Levin.

And George Soros has spent more than $21 billion over the last few decades.

He spent $1.3 billion in 2022 alone.

Most of that cash went to left-wing causes, including media matters, Planned Parenthood, the Sunrise Movement.

He's the guy who has put in the radical DAs and the radical attorney generals.

And now, what?

He's buying up talk radio.

Why would you do that?

Why would you buy all of these broadcasts?

It seems like it's a failing industry, right?

It's not.

It's not.

About 80% of the people still listen to radio.

80%.

That's incredible.

You think nobody listens to the radio.

80% still listen to the radio.

Okay, so that is the second largest broadcaster, now going to George Soros.

Then we have this.

Cumulus.

Cumulus used to be the ABC radio network.

It used to be the largest.

Now I think it is the third largest.

Cumulus is facing a takeover from an investor based in Singapore.

Part of the process of their bankruptcy, it has asked for and received from the FCC permission to become as much as 100%

foreign owned.

So the third largest broadcaster is about to go to a Singapore holdings company.

How does this bid for America?

You have George Soros and a Singapore company.

And then iHeart all alone.

But don't worry, news for radio gets even better.

Yesterday, Brendan Carr, he's an FCC commissioner, he came out and said the FCC has just ordered every broadcaster to start posting a race and gender scorecard that breaks down the demographics of their workforce.

Activists lobbied for this because they want to see businesses pressured into hiring people based on their race and gender.

Courts have already overturned the FCC twice for pressuring broadcasters into making hiring decisions in violation of the Constitution.

I dissent.

This is a shot across our bow now.

If the Supreme Court doesn't stop them again,

we will now, if I want to be on radio, have to disclose.

By the way, I don't have a problem doing this.

I'm almost 2% Native American.

So

I'm a minority inside of a minority.

Anyway,

we have to start hiring based on gender and everything else.

I don't care what, you know, male, female.

I don't care who you sleep with.

I don't care what color you are.

Really don't.

I want to know what's inside of your head.

I want to know how you think.

Can you bring something different that I don't bring to the table?

That's how I hire.

Can you fit what your different thinking is into what I'm trying to accomplish?

If you can,

great.

We're going to work together

forever.

Most of the people that I work with,

and I apologize for this, spend their life working with me.

Because we have...

It feels that way.

Because we have a good working relationship.

We all respect each other.

Again, except for Stu.

This is really...

and let me give you another, let me give you another one.

This is not about radio.

Vice Media stops publishing on vice.com slashes hundreds of jobs amid mainstream media death spiral.

So all of these mainstream media companies, they're all, did you, did you hear about CBS

and Catherine

Heritage?

How do you say her name?

Heritage?

Heritage, right?

I can't.

I can't remember.

Anyway, worked with her at Fox.

We were obviously very close.

But she's very, very

credible.

She's worked.

I don't agree with her all the time, but she's an actual journalist.

And CBS News,

they just threw her out.

She's gone.

Now, they're saying that's because, you know,

we've laid lots of people off recently because we're collapsing.

That's their argument.

That's their argument

for themselves.

Yeah, we're collapsing.

Okay.

Well, maybe, or maybe a real journalist just isn't welcome there anymore.

I don't know.

But everything, all of the media, what I said to Stu, and when we were at the height of Fox, I said, we got to get out of here.

And everybody's like, what?

Everybody works their whole life to get here.

And I'm like, we got to get out of here.

So this whole thing is going to burn itself down.

It's all going to collapse.

And here we are.

It's collapsing.

But as I said at the time as well, if you're here while it collapses and you survive, you'll then be working for the government.

Because all of these people will get bailed.

They'll get bailed out by the federal government.

We can't.

These institutions are far too important.

It goes back to your Cloward and Piven stuff from yesterday that is worth watching.

If you go to your Blaze TV account, you can watch it on demand.

But it's one of those situations where, like, you know, Vice is a great example of this.

I mean, Vice, how many articles did Vice write about how your career and life was collapsing?

Oh my gosh.

I can't

think

over and over again.

And all these companies that have been writing for years about how conservative media personalities were going to flame out and their businesses were going to collapse are now all gone.

They're just, you know, they've all either dissolved or fired all their people and AI is writing their articles.

I mean,

it is, sure, satisfying for me,

but it is embarrassing for them, I would assume.

I mean, it's a, I don't know.

Maybe they're all just, they've all moved on and they're all just taking money from the government and living at home now, but are working from home now, but I don't know.

It doesn't seem like they are able to keep any of these things afloat, despite, I mean, how much money did Vice get?

Billions and billions of dollars of just free investment cash dumped into that place.

Can you imagine if we had if we would have had like a hundred uh uh

uh a hundred million just just a hundred million compared to the billions that they had just a hundred million in fifty million in investment can you imagine what we could have done with it because we wouldn't have wasted it right they just wasted it gone I mean this is also while they're producing shows for HBO I mean they were handed a media empire with, let's be honest, no

valid reason to be handed a media empire.

I mean, like, Vice did some interesting stuff early on.

They were kind of different.

And then they just turn into the typical left-wing news source.

And we were supposed to sit here and be like, oh, wow, this is amazing.

It's innovative.

Look at this.

Let's just throw money at these people.

And what do they do?

The place is gone, basically.

We sat there for, I don't know how many meetings.

I sat with big, big, big companies that were trying to figure out how we were doing it.

And at the time, we were doing it more right than anybody else, but we were still wrong, and we had no margin of error because it was all on me.

And they were trying to figure out, you know, what do we do?

What do we do?

And I remember sitting in meetings going, your numbers don't make sense.

I mean, I'm sorry, guys.

I'm, you know, I'm not an accountant.

I'm really not a good businessman, but I can look at this and you're selling what for what?

And how do you even know that's true?

And it was all hype.

It was all hype.

Now all that hype is over and it's all falling apart.

The mainstream media is falling apart.

And look what's happening.

You know, I just said recently, it's been quiet on the Western front.

It's been all quiet for quite some time in talk radio.

Haven't really had any attacks on talk radio.

Been squooshed with digital, but on talk radio, haven't had a single problem.

That's new.

What was that all about?

They forget about us?

No.

No.

They're just going to take it.

They're just going to take it in public-private partnerships.

And the left because our billionaires do nothing.

Honest to God, our billionaires who believe in America, the only one that I know that is actually putting his money where his mouth is is Donald Trump.

I mean, there's a handful.

Yeah, I don't agree with that.

There's some of these guys.

There's a handful.

There's a handful.

Not always publicly.

Yes.

But George Soros.

I mean, if you're going to stand up, stand up.

Stand up.

You want to stay in the shadows?

That's fine.

And I thank you for it.

But get your friends to stand up.

Why isn't we know the power of talk radio?

We know the power of radio.

Where are our billionaires?

Why aren't they stepping to the plate?

Why?

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We've been telling you about ESG for a while now.

There are 15 states that have now passed laws targeting ESG in one form or another.

The number is still going up.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis and Bob Romill, he's state rep,

put together the toughest anti-ESG bill in America, and it was passed in 2023.

Among other things, it bans banks from using ESG social credit scores to discriminate against its customers.

And that's one of the biggest tools used by the Great Reset elites.

To fundamentally transform us, they can use social scores.

What is your green energy usage?

What is, you know, how much, what does your carbon footprint look like?

Are you in the school board fighting for or against

things

like critical race theory and DEI?

Does your company have DEI in place?

What is that like?

If it doesn't hit certain places, then they don't give you a loan.

That's done now in Florida.

There is another one that's coming out that may be

the best one out, and it's coming from Tennessee, and it's from Representative Jason Zachary.

He's just put together an ESG bill that has the potential to be the strongest or the second strongest law in the country.

It's a really good law, and it goes up in committee on Tuesday, and I wanted you to know about it.

Representative Jason Zachary is with us now.

Hey, Jason, how are you?

Hey, I'm Greg Glenn.

How are you?

Good.

So tell me about the bill and

the battle for passing this thing.

Sure.

Yeah, well, to start out last year, we passed, we took the first ESG step with the treasurer of our state.

Thankfully, we have one of the best treasurers in the country, very conservative.

He and I began to discuss ESG and the problems that we were seeing with BlackRock and the state of Tennessee.

We divested ourselves from all the BlackRock investment.

He and I were having this conversation.

He said, I'm never going to allow these standards to be utilized, but we have to take legislative steps to ensure those behind me don't take those steps.

So last year, I was able to pass a bill with our Senate Majority Leader, Jack Johnson, to prohibit ESG standards from being used on the governmental state level.

And so obviously, the next step, as you've talked about, was the Fair Access Bill, which Florida has.

I talked to the DeSantis team.

They've been very helpful.

But man, really, Glenn, the team at Wall Builders, Audrey,

Betty, Justin Haskins, they have been invaluable in providing.

I literally have pages of resources here to be able to combat the pushback from the Tennessee Bankers Association, which is obviously pushing back on the bill.

But to your point, I feel like we have the home run.

We've included all the best parts.

It requires notification.

It protects religious liberty of institutions, political views, whether you want a firearm.

I mean, we hit just about every aspect.

And then we actually, versus just saying ESG, we actually list out the individual tenants of ESG to ensure that the big banks cannot debank Tennesseans.

Wow, that is fantastic.

So

what's the pushback been like?

Sure.

So we started out as the team at Alliance for Defending Freedom.

They've been working hand in hand with wall builders.

And so they came to us and said, listen, the Tennessee charter banks are not your problem.

Your $3, $4 billion banks, I mean, they're serving Tennesseans.

they're doing a great job.

It's Bank of America.

It's JPMorgan Chase.

It's Wells Fargo.

It's the big guys.

So they suggested putting an amendment on that would that would, that was $100 billion that only hit the 28 largest banks in the country because that's the problem.

And so kind of thinking that that would back the Bankers Association off.

Well, the Bankers Association represents the large banks as well.

And so they were in my office like last week pushing back, saying they were uncomfortable with the bill.

And Glenn, I just looked at him and said, listen, if you're uncomfortable with what's in this, then that's the problem.

That's why we have to run it.

But if you guys aren't doing these things, then you won't have a problem.

Because they like to say in a conservative, in a conservative state like Tennessee, they immediately say, well, guys, we're opposed to ESG.

And then here comes the butt.

And then you've got these 15 different things they list out.

And so I've already worked the committee.

We're a super majority in Tennessee, 75 Republicans in the House out of 99.

I've worked the committee.

The Republicans are with us.

We've only got one Democrat on the committee, so I feel really confident.

Wall Builders and ADF have pulled some resources together.

Former Senator Brown back from Kansas is going to come in and testify.

Excellent.

ADF, some of the guys at Wall Builders are going to be there.

We've got an awesome team coming in because we've got this up in committee on Tuesday.

So it goes through committee.

If it makes it through, and it sounds like it will, then what's the next step?

When will this actually be in front of the

legislature to vote?

Yeah, good question.

And it's important for you, unlike Washington, that's the focus.

They don't read bills.

They don't go through committee and leadership makes decisions.

In most states, like Tennessee, every bill is heard.

So it starts out in subcommittee.

It'll be in the banking subcommittee.

After it passes there, it would go to the full commerce committee, which is a much larger committee.

Then it goes to the House floor.

And Glenn, you talk about this all the time, but it's important for your listeners, especially your Tennesseans, to know they need to call the members of the banking committee.

You don't need to worry about the full House right now because we got a couple of weeks till we get there.

But this next week, you call the banking committee and say, and email them and say, hey, guys, we need this.

This is something we need to pass to protect us.

And then the following week, you need to call the Commerce Committee, Tennesseans do.

And then three weeks from now, that's when you start emailing the whole House.

So it's very different than Congress, and most people don't understand that.

And so you focus on one committee at a time because that's the most important.

We'll pass it in the House.

And Senator, Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, he's been right with me on this.

He'll then move it on the Senate side.

And then hopefully in probably four weeks or so, we could have this before the governor to sign for a signature.

Are you getting any coverage in the state on this?

Man, Glenn, no.

I mean, really, man, you are truly, and I'm not just saying it because I'm on with you.

I literally, no lie, I was driving to the Capitol the morning you were talking about the UCC bill and Christy Noam's veto, and that bill happened to be in my committee the next day.

I went to the sponsor, man, we got that bill stopped because of

because of what, and I'm serious, because of the information you brought forward.

I told Sarah, who was emailing me yesterday, man, I've read the great reset twice, your discussions on ESG, the resources that you mentioned with Justin and the wall builders.

I just started reaching out and engaging them.

Audreya at Wall Builders, the resources that you've provided have been phenomenal.

But, man, in conservative media, nobody else is talking about these things.

Like central bank digital currency shifting a little bit.

With the help of wall builders, I put an amendment on that UCC bill.

So, if it were to pass, which I don't think it will, we've already gotten it rolled to the last calendar.

If it were to pass, I've got that on there to change the definition of a deposit account.

And again, you're the only person talking about it.

Statewide, zero coverage.

Nobody's talking about it.

Geez, so if you're not getting any coverage,

you don't have any backing.

If you are listening

right now,

you have got to get engaged.

This is the Tennessee ESG bill.

It is potentially one of the strongest, top two strongest laws in the country on ESG.

And each individual state has to protect itself from this.

And I know that they're repackaging right now.

Don't think that

they're not giving up on this.

They're just renaming and repackaging.

They will never give up on this.

This is the way they control everybody's life.

This and CBDC, a central bank digital currency.

When is that bill coming up?

So the UCC bill, we got that rolled to the last calendar.

And as most people know, we're part-time legislators.

We go from January to April.

So we got it pushed to the last calendar, hoping the sponsor will take it off.

I mean, it's a cold breeze blowing in that committee right now just because there's so much uncertainty around it.

But I have a standalone bill to change the definition of deposit accounts to make it very difficult to implement a central bank digital currency because what happens, the federal government can roll it out.

People can use it.

There's only so much the states can do.

But like Florida's done and Alabama, North Dakota, we as Tennessee need to take that step to ensure that it's not that banks can't use it as collateral within their deposit accounts.

So then they push back on the federal government and say, listen, you can't implement this because our 90 to 10 ratios, we can't maintain those if we can't count central bank digital currency as a collateral.

And so, I mean, man, again, these are all factors.

And some of those, all these things we're talking about are so critically important, but most people just know it from a surface level and don't think much can be done.

But Glenn, I'm five terms in serving in the House.

It's been the honor of my life to serve.

And under Governor Haslam, who was our previous governor, Republican, he used to say that the federal government had become an unreliable partner.

Well, over the last five years under Governor Lee, who's our current governor, man, they've become an adversarial partner.

I mean, literally, Joe Biden has called Governor Lee twice asking to dump illegals in our state.

He says, no, they do it anyway.

Everything that we do, the federal government is pushing back on us.

And so

we were the first state in the nation.

We passed a block grant for Medicaid.

We got it in right before Trump left office.

He signed off on it, and we have been able to save about $350 million a year with with our Medicaid program because we get to keep those shared savings.

But we're the only state that was able to do that because we got it under the gun.

And so, man, our conversation among our supermajority GOP has been we have to do everything we can to firewall our state from these adversarial policies of the federal government.

You have to.

Wow.

It is

an honor and privilege to talk to you, Jason.

Thank you for everything that you guys are doing.

Thank you, Glenn.

Man, truly, you have no idea what a valuable resource you are to citizen legislators like me.

Man, I don't have a staff.

I don't have people that can research.

And I literally listen to you on a daily basis.

And you inform and talk about things most people don't.

And it helps.

I mean, we as legislators, we talk about things you talk about on your show.

And what you talk about is impacting 7 million Tennesseans.

And all I can speak for is Tennessee.

But, man, please.

keep bringing these issues to the forefront.

Sometimes people think they're so mundane, but man, this impacts the the people I represent, every Tennessean, but people across the nation.

And we, as red states, we got to be bold in the steps we're taking.

And for most of us, like this ESG bill, man, this is common sense, but these are the bold steps that we have to take to ensure that we preserve our way of life.

Who knows what's going to happen in 2024?

You know, when you're done with all of this, I would like to talk to you because, for instance, the Daily Wire is in your state now, and they are coming after all digital and now all radio uh what the fcc did yesterday the sale to soros of the second largest media company uh in america radio broadcast company and uh the the third largest is being sold to a company 100 in the philippines so it won't be american owned anymore um

they

we're in trouble on radio we i believe are in trouble and i haven't felt that for a long time.

They're coming.

They are coming on digital and on radio.

And I'd love to talk to you about anything you can do.

The states have got to protect their local broadcasters.

Have to.

And Glenn,

I keep saying your team, the team at Wall Builders with David Barton and his group, if there are any legislators across the country listening and they have not reached out or talked to that team, call Audrea Decker over at Wall Builders.

They are fantastic.

I literally, sitting in front of, I'm sitting here now in my car with pages of documentation, white papers that they've provided that allow me to make a case for ESG, but other things that they've provided.

So if there's any legislators out there listening, they need to reach out to Wall Builders because that is an invaluable resource.

And again, those of us, I'm a part-time legislator.

We go from January to April, and then we don't have session again until the following January.

We don't have the resources of like my Congressman Burchett, who's got just unlimited resources, but he he can't do anything in Washington.

So, man, please reach out to the team at Wall Builders if you're a legislator because they can help and equip you to be able to pass some of these big bills.

I am

so pleased that we got a hold of you.

And you just let us know when you need people in Tennessee to know.

Hey, they need to please.

I sent Sarah the link.

So if you guys, is there any way you could post that?

It's the link to the two committees.

Tennesseans can click on those links.

They can follow me on Twitter, JasonZachary T.N.

I'll go ahead and post those links there.

They can click on those links.

It'll show all the members of the banking committee.

They can click on their picture.

They can send them a nice email.

And Glenn, too, it's important that from a legislator's perspective for your users, don't send or your listeners, don't send canned emails.

Like our system weeds out.

Like people will say, hey, sign up here and send your legislator an email.

We don't get those auto emails, but just a personal email.

Hey, Rep, Zachary, man, please, please pass this bill or please vote for this bill.

It's important for us.

That stuff makes a difference.

Call the guys' offices.

I mean, again, we listen to that stuff.

We actually do receive the feedback directly.

Okay, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

God bless you.

I'm going to post this and if the social media could actually do it by zip so we can go into the region and go right into Tennessee.

So we

hyperserve them on this.

And I'll post this at glennbeck.com also on my social media today so you have that information.

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Okay, Okay, I want you to hear this clip from MSNBC as they're talking about Christian nationalism.

Listen.

Remember when Trump ran in 2016, a lot of the mainline evangelicals wanted nothing to do with the divorced

real estate mogul who cheated on his wife and with a porn star and all of that, right?

So what happened was he was surrounded by this more extremist element.

You're going to hear words like Christian nationalism, like the new apostolic reformation.

These are groups that you should get very,

very schooled on because they have a lot of...

Stop for a second.

These are the same people

that

she's talking about 2016.

You have to get to know them because they were around him in 2016 and they're very far right.

And they want a Christian nationalist nation, making it sound like some fascistic thing.

No, did they do it in 2016?

What's changed?

What has changed other than the you, the media, which the media is, you might as well just move it into,

if you see it on mainstream media, you know it's coming from a government agency.

It's coming from Intel somewhere or another.

That's their source on all this.

Why are they saying now that the same people that were around him in 2016

are extreme Christian nationalists?

I'll tell you why.

Because that designation will allow the Department of Homeland Security and FBI and NSA to spy or round up and use the Patriot Act

to quash.

That's why this is being brought up.

Actual Christian nationalism, which is not what they're talking about, is very small and it is real.

And it is dangerous.

We've talked about it before.

If you don't know, go back and listen.

We'll talk about it again.

But it is real and it is dangerous.

But that's not what she's talking about.

And I want you to listen to the rest of the clip.

Of power in Trump's circle.

And the one thing that unites all of them, because there's many different groups orbiting Trump, but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalists is very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority.

They don't come from Congress.

They don't come from the Supreme Court.

They come from God.

The problem with that is that they are determining man, men, it is men,

are determining what God is telling them.

And in the past, that so-called natural law is, you know, it's a pillar of Catholicism.

Catholicism, for instance, has been used for good in social justice campaigns.

Martin Luther King evoked it in talking about civil rights.

But now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it's going much further than that, as you see, for instance, with the ruling in Alabama this week that judges connected to that dominionist.

Have you ever heard something so crazy that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Endowed by who?

Endowed by their creator.

I mean, you're just, are you a Christian nationalist?

Are you just making that up off the test?

Where are you getting that phrase?

I'm just quoting it from an old dusty document.

Endowed by their creator with certain unchangeable, untouchable rights.

The reason why the founders wrote that is because they had a king who said, I create rights.

I will tell you the rights you have.

So the founders settled on, you know, there are some things to nature's God,

nature's law.

Now, nature's God, based on the Judeo-Christian Ten Commandments and just the, you know, rule of thumb, be good, be good to one another, love one another.

These things are wrong, these things are not good.

Based on those laws and the laws of nature,

this is what we would call today,

follow the science.

Those things are where we get our general understanding of rights.

And if you don't have that understanding that rights are not printed up,

are not

they're just not changeable by men and they're not printed up by men.

If you understand that, you know then where the limits of government are.

That's what made America different.

We have a charter of negative liberties.

The charter that we have for the government, it's all negative liberties.

You cannot do these things.

All other constitutions

are reversed.

They have a charter of negative liberties on the people.

No, the government doesn't give us these rights.

We're restraining the government because something is bigger than government.

And it's not man, it's God.

And you can see how this might be a problem if you reverse this concept.

If you said actually all your rights are just gifts from government institutions and politicians.

What happens when they change?

What happens if you're a group that's out of favor with the government?

You'd think someone on the left would understand this.

It's why

you understand this.

This is why they're doing it with Donald Trump.

They are taking away his right to a fair, free trial.

So they're doing.

Now they're just taking away

his right to have a business, to do business, because they want to.

There are certain things

that our founders did that

if we don't teach them, we don't understand them,

we are going to lose the country.

This is why I've been saying,

you know, what are we for?

I'm tired of being against stuff.

What are we for?

Well, I am for God-given rights,

and

they're pretty obvious.

You have a right to be you,

but being you,

everybody has the right to be you.

They can be them.

You can be you.

That's fine.

But you don't have a right to

kill another person because they're not you.

They have a different point of view and they're not hurting anybody.

They have a right to liberty.

You can't just scoop them up off the street because you disagree with them.

They have a right to say what they feel, just like you have a right to say what you feel.

They have a right to collect with their own groups of people.

You have a right to do it too.

Whatever rights you want,

you better protect them for the people you don't like.

That's the way we used to always be.

I don't agree with you, but I'll fight to the death for your right to say it and believe it.

That's not what we're doing now.

No,

it's very true.

And when you look back at

even the founding of this country, obviously you point out, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, which should prove it to almost anyone.

But you can go through the founding concepts of this country and find

how it was designed with natural law in mind with almost no exception.

I mean, it's so fundamental to the country, let alone the misunderstanding going on here with Christianity, which is a whole different story.

But just that when you're talking about the country as a whole,

every concept that we care about comes from natural law.

Everything from habeas corpus,

you know, paying back someone you've wronged,

that concept is directly from natural law.

There's a whole list of them.

Life.

Limited government.

Separation of powers.

Checks and balances.

These things all come from natural law.

The right to contract

comes from natural law.

The right to bear arms comes from natural law.

I don't want to use that necessarily in this example because they probably want to get rid of that one.

Talking about no taxation without representation.

That comes from natural law.

How about this?

These are some of them that they talked about, but they thought it was so obvious they didn't need to enumerate them.

Okay.

I want you to understand rights.

The Declaration is our mission statement.

We tell the king we got to break up, but because we want to be decent human beings, we have to tell you what we're going to do, why we need to break up with you.

And that's because we hold these things self-evident.

You don't.

We do.

Okay.

We don't want to war with you.

But you won't listen to us because we're different.

We think differently.

We believe, you believe that all rights come from you because you're appointed by God.

We don't think that.

We think every man is equal.

Every man is equal.

We're all created equal and we're all given certain rights.

You say, as the king, only you have it, or only parliament has it.

We don't think that.

And they list life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

Then later, because they knew people were going to be so stupid, and actually it was because they just didn't trust the government.

None of them did.

The state said, when we sign this constitution, we need to outline

some rights here so everybody is clear because there are certain unalienable rights.

There's hundreds of thousands of millions of them

I haven't even thought of.

You haven't thought of.

So it's an unlimited number of rights, but they thought the really important ones ought to be written down, and that's the Bill of Rights.

But here are some of the things they were talking about.

The unalienable or natural rights, meaning unalienable just means you can't take this right away, you can't change it, no man can change it because it is part of nature.

The right of self-government, which means you have a right to vote, you have a right to be heard, you have a right to campaign, you have a right to serve in government, a right to bear arms for self-defense, a right to own, develop, and sell property, a right to make personal choices, a right of a free conscience.

You can't tell me

as a government what to believe.

The right to choose a profession, the right to choose a mate, the right to beget one's kind.

In other words, have children, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right to free speech, free press, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labors.

This is why the thing with Elon Musk is so horrific.

Because he's being told he made a deal with his company and everybody said he'll never make it it's an outrageous deal he's a sucker for taking it because he'll never ever be able to accomplish it he does and then the federal government steps in and says that's an unfair deal you're giving him too much money

They made the deal as free citizens, they made a contract.

They have a right to make a contract.

Government has no role in it

unless somebody's being defrauded.

But nobody's complaining about fraud in that or the Donald Trump case.

The government is.

They don't have that right.

They don't have that right.