Best of the Program | Guest: Ben Shapiro | 2/1/24

Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

He's going the distance.

He was the highest paid TV star of all time.

When it started to change, it was quick.

He kept saying, No, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.

Now, Charlie's sober.

He's gonna tell you the truth.

How do I present this with any class?

I think we're past that, Charlie.

We're past that, yeah.

Somebody call action.

Yeah, aka Charlie Sheen, only on Netflix, September 10th.

Still, I mean, I think

we might have hit the limit on sarcasm today.

Our FDA a lot that was exceeded.

I don't...

I'm not sure if the audience likes the sarcasm.

I mean, you wouldn't like the show today if you don't get sarcasm.

You'd be like, Lens, for what?

Because it took me about, oh, I don't know, an hour and a half before I could handle actually speaking like a decent human being about the facts of of the day.

It took about an hour and a half for you to say something you actually believed.

It was all sarcasm until that point.

Yeah, because

it's like my go-to

let's not go insane device.

You know what I mean?

It's a defense mechanism.

Yeah.

Yeah.

In an insane world, you have to just adopt the other side's insanity.

Yeah.

Just run with it.

Yeah.

It makes you feel better.

Right.

And so you say things that you, you know, if people don't understand sarcasm, they think you mean, by the way, lover.

Oh, thanks, bud.

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All right, I just want to go through some of the headlines today because we have a president who is absolutely on the ball

and he's done everything he could for the border and he can do no more without special emergency powers.

And I think the president is,

yes, he is wonderful and

no, you're exiting the wrong way, sir.

No, that you really

know, sir, turn around, turn around, no, not towards the back of the okay.

Anyway, let me just tell you the America that we have today.

Let me go through some

some of the headlines today.

Biden gun rule being drafted to effectively ban private sales of all guns.

That's good.

Federal judge rules California ammunition background checks unconstitutional, thank God.

Speaking of that, Sodomior has

admitted now that she's traumatized, quote, traumatized every time conservatives win a court case.

I live in frustration.

Wow, that doesn't seem seem really impartial there,

does it?

And by the way, Sodomayor, it's definitely, it was absolutely, positively, definitely not her office that was the source of the leak of the Dobbs abortion case.

I just want to point that out.

Definitely not Sodomayor's people.

Biden finally getting around to visiting East Palestine, which is great.

I think, again, he was probably a little confused on.

I got a

but uh what i'm what i didn't know they had a train accident there uh he will not say however if he's going to drink the water in east palestine a verdict in the new york uh civil fraud case is coming next week i'm all a tingle Everybody's talking about it.

We've got our champagne ready to open up.

When the judge says, yes, yes, Donald Trump committed fraud and they give give him they get like I don't know take like another 350 million dollars from him oh he's so excited let's all go shopping oh wait a minute no I'm on the other side Trump's next legal challenge could be about his Chicago skyscraper don't worry don't worry if they can do this to the president what he

never gonna do it to you never

never

Fannie Willis, meanwhile, she's great.

She apparently fired fired the whistleblower who blew the whistle on the misuse of federal funds.

So,

whoops, but don't worry about it.

Nothing will happen.

Business partners of Fannie Willis' alleged lover bankrolled her campaign, and then she gave them lucrative contracts.

But she's out doing the people's work.

The former Trump official was shot in the District of Columbia amid a crime surge, but the DCAG said yesterday, the district can't prosecute or arrest our way out of crime.

Yeah, or you're right.

That's never worked.

No, ever worked.

I mean, let me just say this, and I'm not advocating for this.

I actually warn against stuff like this, but there's not a lot of crime in China, you know?

Philippines, for a while, no real drug problems.

You know, all you have to do is just execute the people.

You know, not exactly an approach you

advocate for.

No, I'm not advocating for it, but I'm saying,

since when can't you arrest and

prosecute people for crime and it doesn't help crime go down?

Since when?

Isn't that the whole purpose of law enforcement?

Like, why do you arrest anyone?

Why is there ever

law enforcement at all?

Correct.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, they're now locking up $1.99 packs of gum.

$1.99.

I'm sorry, you're going to have to wait for the man with a key to get the pack of gum.

Gavin Newsom is now targeting a target clerk because he went in and is like, hey, why didn't you stop that person?

I just saw him stealing.

And the clerk said, well, because of the stupid governor.

The governor said.

And that got him angry.

And so now he's targeting this target.

Person.

It's too many targets in this.

Oh my gosh, did he say the word target?

Call, get Sarah Palin into court.

Wife tries to kill husband after his ex from 60 years ago sent a card.

He was 71 years old.

He had a relationship with this girl in the 1960s.

To say they're a good-looking group of people is kind of

a little misleading.

But at 71 years old, he gets a card.

from a girlfriend in the 1960s and his wife tries to suffocate him with a pillow.

And I think that's perfectly reasonable.

And you know what?

Don't even call the police.

Don't even call the police.

There's nothing we can do.

CNN has now just said that the key Democratic demographic is trending toward Donald Trump.

James O'Keefe, now this is going to come as a shock, has a White House official caught on camera admitting that Biden is in mental decline.

What?

New York Community Bank Corp stocks plunge 38%, reigniting fears for regional banks.

But don't worry, the Fed says everything

perfect.

And they're going to hold the interest rate steady.

They're not ready to cut them yet.

Maybe this summer.

Maybe this fall.

You know, like right before the election.

And the printers are going to be printing.

I'm sorry.

We don't print money anymore.

We digitize it.

And it's entirely different.

New York Times has done a study.

Sit down for this one.

One big reason migrants are coming in droves to the United States.

New York Times confirms now, and who saw this, they believe they can stay.

What?

Nikki Haley says Texas has the right to secede from the U.S.

Governor Hokul suggests deporting illegals who attack.

Wait a minute.

Hold it.

Governor Hokul, Hokul, Hokul.

Which state is Hokul from?

Must be a hate monger state.

She wants to deport illegals.

Hokul, Hokul.

Can't remember what state she's.

Oh, wait a minute.

Huh.

Anyway, she says that they should deport the illegals that attacked cops in Times Square.

If you haven't seen it, it's, you know, it's great.

It's really, it's, uh, well, it ended with one.

Do we have the full screen here?

There's the, there's the confrontation and just doing a beat down, kick down.

uh these illegal immigrants are just beating the snot out and then let me just show the picture of one of the illegal in immigrants that we're leaving uh yeah oh there he is he's um some would say he's a bird lover

because on the ends of his hands he's showing two birds and uh that's that's Flipping it in a way.

Yeah, flipping the bird, which is nice.

Democratic governor slam for closing rec center in black neighborhood to house illegals in Boston.

Eh, don't worry about it.

Chinese hackers, ready?

Ready to wreak havoc on U.S.

critical infrastructure, according to our FBI director.

Okay, that sounds really

bad.

But the DOD is holding an event about the rise of far-right terrorism in America.

It's one of their brown bag

get-togethers.

They have these brown bag things where you just bring your brown bag.

Everybody's like, Why is it brown?

You racist?

And they're like, No, that's that's old-timey talk for you know, bring your lunch, and then we're just going to sit around and talk.

And this time,

the rise of far-right terrorism, pay no attention to the quote, Chinese hackers who are now ready to wreak havoc on critical U.S.

infrastructure.

Don't worry about that one.

Now, another news in America that makes total sense: five men dominate women's college volleyball.

Hang on.

Five men dominate women's college volleyball

game.

They injure two female players.

Why are the men playing in the...

Oh, that's right.

Because we're protecting women.

That's right.

We're really holding up women and we're protecting women's rights.

And that's why we have five men playing women's volleyball.

And what a surprise.

They won.

They won.

I didn't see it coming.

It was, it's crazy.

It's almost, the New York Times should do some analysts, get some analysts together and do an analysis on what exactly happened there.

I don't know.

I don't know.

The new state-mandated tampon dispenser in Connecticut high school.

This is the boys' bathroom, okay?

I mean, it's not just the, you know, the boys didn't go into the women's tampon dispenser.

They have their own now.

now.

What's wrong with you?

But some hatemongers ripped it down in just 20 minutes.

That's crazy.

Christian Private School has now banned a mom from dropping off her kids in a car that has an ad for her OnlyFans account.

These bigoted Christians.

Here's one that'll make you happy.

Make you say, you know, Grandpa.

I know what you fought for.

I know, I know, I know you lived through the depression.

You warned me.

You told me things could happen.

but I told you, sit down, old man, you don't know what's coming.

We're the greatest generation.

The new adult diaper therapy spa

has now opened in New Hampshire amid community backlash.

What a bigoted community.

You think there's, what, what, what?

You don't want to go back to be treated as a baby, as a 50-year-old man, and have somebody put a diaper on you, and then you go poopy in the diaper, and then somebody gets to clean it up.

That's great.

I can't wait until I'm 95 years old and I get to have people do that.

Oh, it'll be such a sexual turn on.

Baltimore principal has,

there's a recording out where he said black kids can't test their way out of a paper bag and all kinds of other horrible, horrible stuff.

Well, they don't know if it was really him.

He says it was AI.

I never said any of those things.

It's AI.

Oh, are we getting to that conspiracy theory time that Glenn Beck talked about?

Oh, I don't know, 15 years ago, where things will start to be disrupted because you won't be able to believe your eyes or your ears because of AI and deep fakes?

Oh, did you hear last week?

I don't know if you saw this.

They took it down right away because it was misinformation.

But they took it down right away.

It was the president apparently in an off-mic moment at a speech where

he didn't realize the microphones were on, and you hear the crowd in the background, and he's apparently backstage, and he's like, you know what?

I don't care about these Texans.

I'm going to send the F-15 fighters over.

You're like, F-15s?

Well, it's a classic.

He's sending at least the classic planes.

We'll just bomb the crap out of those Texans.

Wow.

He said, what?

No, he didn't say it.

Wow, it's weird.

I think I might have said this would be the election where deep fakes would play a role.

Huh.

Well, there you go.

So Frontier Airlines had a flyer, just a normal American.

I don't even know why this is news.

Frontier Airlines flyer, 60-year-old woman,

she got up and she announced to the plane, she was on her way to Philly.

And she said, I got a pee.

And then she

flashed, I'm quoting, she flashed her anus and genitalia on the plane.

But that's what makes the jet setting groove.

Just, I mean, it's exciting to get on a plane now, isn't it?

It's like, whoa, where are we going to go?

And the stewardesses, they're all so nice and happy and sexy.

And you're like, whoa, this is what it's like to jet set.

And then the next thing you know, some 60-year-old woman is just showing you her anus.

She's like, look, look, it's like a cyclops with one brown eye.

And you're like, okay, this is great.

But that's America today in a nutshell.

So I don't know what you people are complaining about.

Seems like everything is going great today.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

I believe I could say rap

legend.

Ben Shapiro.

Welcome to the program, Ben.

How are you?

Yo, yo, yo.

What's up, Holmes?

Hey.

I would respond, but I'm a little uncomfortable.

How you doing, man?

You know,

it's been a journey.

It's been a journey.

There have been so many iterations of my art over time.

Yeah.

From playing classical violin now to this.

And

there's just so many genres I've yet to explore.

I can't wait to explore all of them.

What are you going to do next?

Heavy metal.

Really?

See,

while you're dabbling in this kind of stuff, I'm learning new languages.

I'm learning currently.

Which is like rap legend Ben Shapiro.

I just said that.

And the people who speak that language know it.

But anyway,

some of us are serious.

This is amazing.

Listen, it's just a testament to the magic of my magnetic personality, my insane levels of Riz, as they say, as the kids say.

You know, everyone, everyone can't get off the rap train now.

It's

the station, and

we will not be denied that number one status on Billboard number one.

Even Billboard is now admitting, by the way, that we're probably going to make the digital song downloads number one this week, just in time for the Grammys.

So I can only hope that

I can only hope that next year we get consideration for a Super Bowl halftime show.

Oh, that is so funny.

Will you be showing your nipples on that if you do get into the halftime show?

I'm going to go no on that.

Okay.

No.

I think that's what I'm saying.

And America thanks you.

Something has to be left to the imagination.

You're going to want some more.

That's really the message.

Yeah.

So

I'm wearing my hoodie today because you were wearing your hoodie in the video.

And

you look good.

Whenever I see you,

I put the hoodie on, and I either look like Kenny

or I

like the Emperor from Star Wars.

I cannot make it, I don't.

It's strange, but I can't make it cool, Ben.

It's very strange.

Yeah, well, no, I didn't know that I could do it either.

So, the way that happened is that we were just filming that portion of the rap, and I looked around and I was dressed as I normally do as a dork.

And I said, Do we have a hoodie in the office?

And like, actually, we do.

Somewhere in the back here, we have like a fax hoodie that we once marketed.

And I was like, Bring it out.

And

the most far piece of drip that is that is possible on planet Earth right now.

We have sold more of those hoodies, and it's basically funding

my entire mortgage at this point.

That's so funny.

Hang on just a sec.

Let's play a little bit of the rap.

Let's look at the stats.

I've got the facts.

My money like Lizzie, my pockets are fat.

Homie, I'm epic.

Don't be a whap.

Dog, it's a Yamaha, homie, no cap.

Look at the graphs, look at my charts.

You're blowing money on strippers and cards.

You going to prison?

I'm on television.

Dogs, no one knows who you are.

So funny.

So funny.

The joy that my art brings to others is really the reason I'm in the game.

So, Ben, let's change the subject here for a second.

What is the biggest threat to our country right now?

I think the biggest threat to our country is that there is a widespread conspiracy theory that's held on virtually every side of the aisle, which is that success in a free market, free system is somehow emblematic of exploitation.

You see it mostly on the left is basically what DEI is, is this theory that the powerful in society control everyone else and that you can tell who the powerful are by their success and then you can group them by race.

And so DEI basically says that if you're a white male, you're on the top of the power hierarchy, you're unfairly exploiting others, and therefore you need to be brought low.

That tends to cross streams with anti-Semitism, obviously, because once you start talking about groups that are disproportionately successful in the United States, you get into Asians, you get into Jews, it gets into really ugly territory.

But also see some elements of this on sort of the far right: this idea that everything is a conspiracy, everything is a group of elites who are seeking to keep you under the boot.

And success is therefore

belonging to this elite cadre of people.

Now, that doesn't mean there aren't institutions that aren't run by people who really do have your worst interests at heart.

I mean, the media are run by people who do not agree with your vision of America, the universities.

But we're talking just broadly speaking, the implication that success is unachievable in a free market society or in a free speech society, that is enervating to the American public.

It leads us to see each other as enemies.

It's really ugly.

It's destroying us domestically.

I think it's destroying us in terms of foreign policy as well.

So it's that sort of

ideology, I think.

So I tell you, I don't know exactly what you're pulling from.

There's a couple of things like this horrible ruling, I think, about Elon Musk and the attacks on Elon Musk.

They're trying to destroy him, but that's because he doesn't agree with policy.

I have no problem with people making money and being successful.

My problem is with the elites that are.

It's not a conspiracy.

We know who they are.

The World Economic Forum and all of the leaders around the world that are saying things like, we got to ban meat.

We have to take control of private property and we have to do public-private partnerships.

I mean, those people, that's not a conspiracy, is it?

No, I agree with that.

And so that's why I was distinguishing between institutions that are absolutely doing that, and they're saying it openly.

See, I distinguish between sort of the conspiracy theories and the actual just people who are saying the thing.

The WEF is not hiding the ball.

They're saying exactly what they want to do, and they're doing it out loud, and they say that they control certain businesses, they control governments.

Again, they're doing it right out in the open.

That's why it's always weird to me when people say that the right is so focused on this.

WF conspiracies is like, that's not a conspiracy when you just say the thing.

But that's a little bit different than a sort of,

I think, internalized sense that we're we're getting from a lot of Americans on all sides of the political aisle that success is not possible in the United States, which I don't think is reality.

I think success is possible.

I think there can be institutional obstacles to that success that are largely discriminatory.

But, you know, again, this is an amazing country.

And I think that it's worthwhile for us to remember just how amazing this country was.

And what makes it amazing is the fact that we have a shared set, or we used to at least have a shared set of Judeo-Christian values and free market principles that have created the largest commercial republic in the history of mankind, most powerful military in the history of mankind, and

the most powerful scrutter of morality and decency in the history of mankind.

We are all part of that project.

There are obstacles to that project, but those are not insuperable.

And I think telling people that

they will lose, that whatever is the next thing that happens politically will cause them to be cast into the outer darkness forever.

I'm not a big fan of catastrophism in this country.

I don't think that when we say that the next election is the last election, I don't believe that.

I think it's really, really important.

But I think it's also more important to build up from the local level.

And I prefer that we all start to focus on that as opposed to sort of the catastrophic thinking that if the next election doesn't go the way we want, then civil war is going to break out or something.

Now,

I mean, as America's leading catastrophist,

I do feel like that was a little pointed.

I don't mean it to be.

I mean, it really is not about,

it really is not about the idea that there aren't serious threats lurking around the corner.

But I think that it's easy, and not just lurking, like here.

I mean, listen, we're living in a country where a significant percentage of the population doesn't know the difference between male and female.

I mean, that's a serious crisis that is present right in front of us.

We're in a country where, again, a significant percentage of the population believes that free market capitalism is actually evil and wrong and needs to be curbed.

That's a serious crisis right in front of us.

I guess the point that I'm making is that in our personal lives, in our daily interactions, the things that we should be focused on are what can bring us success.

And I think that we can fight the crises that are political at the same time that we build success from the local level.

And what I prefer conservatives to do is do both at the same time.

We can walk and we can chew gum.

And I think there's been a lot of focus that's been poured into

the crises that face us.

And yeah, those are crises that we have to fight because otherwise we won't be able to do the things on a personal level we want to do.

you know i what i'm seeing right now is people feeling enervated about things like getting married people feeling enervated about about things like getting a job or if I work hard, will I succeed?

And we have to keep saying to people over and over that if you work hard, you will succeed.

And we are going to make sure that nobody stops you from succeeding if you work hard to make the right decisions.

Okay, I understand.

I understand what you're saying there.

I'm surprised that you picked that.

I'm glad you did because I hadn't thought of it the way you're thinking.

But I would say most people right now would say the biggest thing that is the biggest problem we have to address quickly is the border.

Yes.

I mean, on a political political level, absolutely the border.

On a political level, 100% the border.

And when we're talking about the crises that face us right now, I think this is the crisis that's going to define not just this year, but maybe this generation.

Not just on America's southern border, but all over the world, is this mass migration of peoples from areas that are not particularly friendly to Western values into places in the West.

It's obviously breaking politics in Europe.

But in the United States, this idea that we can have an open border that is being openly pursued by Joe Biden.

I mean, there's just no question that Joe Biden has crafted the policy that is specifically designed to keep our borders open.

I was just down on the border and I was talking with Brandon Judd, his head of the Border Patrol Union, and he was showing me the border.

I mean, we went 25 miles without seeing a single border patrol agent.

And that was in an area that did not have border gate.

I mean, that did not have border wall.

That was on the Native American reservation in Arizona.

And, I mean, that place is so unoccupied by border patrol that when we sat there at night and we looked out the window of the car, there was a drone flying over us monitoring us.

I assumed that it was an American drone.

It was not.

It was a Mexican drug cartel drone that was monitoring our car because, and it was on American territory.

And I asked the Border Patrol agent, why didn't you shoot it down?

He said we would have to get direct permission from Alejandro Mallorcas directly to shoot that down so as not to create an international incident on the border.

So

the drug cartels are in control of the border.

They are playing this game that is fully taking advantage of what Joe Biden is doing.

So to understand what Biden has done, the basic answer is Joe Biden has now declared that if you say the magic words with regard to asylum, you will be allowed into the country.

Not only that, Border Patrol's first duty is to take you at the border and to process you and release you into the interior of the United States.

So what the drug cartels are doing is they will literally drive up in a truck yards from the border, unload a bunch of illegal immigrants.

These illegal immigrants will literally walk across the border where we were.

There is a sign with a button on it.

And if you push the button, it says, push for Border Patrol help, like they're bellboys.

And

you push the button.

The Border Patrol all rushes over to do what Joe Biden wants them to do, which is busting an administrative duty.

That leaves the border wide open for the actual scary people.

Because there are two groups of people, right?

There are the people who shouldn't be in here because they don't actually have legal asylum claims.

They may be on the welfare system, but they're not necessarily people who are seeking to do violent crime or smuggle drugs or something.

And the drug cartels make money from kayokeing them up, obviously.

But the drug cartels are making the real money.

from smuggling fentanyl over the border, from smuggling people of criminal records over the border, terrorists over the border.

And Joe Biden is leaving those swaths of the border completely unoccupied so that he can process more people who are claiming asylum.

I mean, it's not not a shock that the criminals who just beat up the cops in New York the other day, they were claiming asylum.

I mean, that's literally what they said.

They said, We are here, we are claiming asylum.

They don't have a legit asylum claim, and that is purely on Joe Biden because, under Donald Trump, we had a remain in Mexico policy, which was if you arrived at the border and said, I claim asylum, we'd say, Great, now you wait in Mexico, and then we'll adjudicate your case.

And then their case would be adjudicated.

They wouldn't have an asylum claim, and they would have to go back home.

Well, that's a pretty good incentive not to show up at our southern border.

Joe Biden has done precisely the reverse.

Ben obviously is with the Daily Wire, and he's got a new documentary out about his trip to the border and shows you all of these things.

And you can watch it

on the Daily Wire if you are like me and you are a member of the Daily Wire.

Ben,

as always, great to talk to you.

I appreciate talking to you and keep the spark alive for the hip-hop in your heart.

Well,

I will.

Will do.

Will do.

Thank you so much, Ben Shapiro.

You're listening to the best of the Glendeck program.

So I'm going to ask you some questions that, you know, most people roll their eyes at it or, you know, just they haven't thought about it and they think they know and they don't.

Where do your basic rights come from?

Do you really have any rights?

Not the question that most Americans, you know, are spending any time thinking about, but we must.

We must begin asking our families and our friends these questions because you'll be surprised how many people don't have any idea.

When you grow up in America,

freedom, individual freedom, it's really all you know.

And it's easy to assume that it's, you know, just kind of like water.

You know, it just is.

I don't know.

Ask people at the grocery store, where's that meat come from?

A grocery store?

They have no idea.

Especially kids today.

We've completely disconnected from the source of all things.

Now, the source

for our rights

is government.

Earlier this month, Rasmussen had done a survey for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, and they divided respondents between elites.

superelites and the general public.

They defined elites as Americans who have at least one postgraduate degree and earn over $150,000.

Then you had the superelites.

The superelites are the same, $150,000 a job a year plus one postgraduate degree, but they got it from the Ivy League colleges.

Then you have the rest of the people.

They found that 47% of elites and 55% of superelites believe the government allows Americans to have too much individual freedom.

Half of these people

believe the government allows Americans to have too much individual freedom.

70% of the elites say they trust the government to do the right thing most of all the time.

That's twice

the national average of any other category.

77% of elites and 89% of superelites would also support, quote, the strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity.

Do you know anybody like that?

Because these are the people that are running our corporations and our government.

The strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity?

This is an anti-American trend, and it's happening because we don't know.

We don't know where our rights come from.

And let me show you some of the garbage that's being shoveled.

One of the guys who is the elite and super elite, WEF member,

everybody who's anybody loves him.

At the World Economic Forum, well, it was in session this year,

there was a clip from a TED Talk from Yaval Noah Harari.

It went viral.

It's several years old, but during this, was people were starting to go, what is the WEF?

They looked for what, who is part of it and what are they saying.

I want you to listen very carefully to what a super elite talks about when he talks about freedom and rights.

Today in the world, many, maybe most legal systems are based on this idea, this belief in human rights.

But human rights are just like heaven and like God.

It's just a fictional story that we've invented and spread around.

It may be a very nice story, it may be a very attractive story, we want to believe it, but it's just a story.

It's not a reality.

It is not a biological reality.

Just as jellyfish and woodpeckers and ostriches have no rights, Homo sapiens have no rights also.

The only place you find rights is in the fictional stories that humans have invented and spread around.

And the same thing is also true in the political field.

States and nations are also like human rights and like God and like heaven.

They too

are just stories.

A mountain is a reality.

You can see it, you can touch it, you can even smell it.

But Israel or the United States, they are just stories, very powerful stories, stories we might want to believe very much, but still they are just stories.

You can't really see the United States.

You cannot touch it.

You cannot smell it.

That is...

I've been in many parts of the United States that you could absolutely smell.

I don't know what he's talking about.

That is the ultimate disinformation.

First of all, listen, there is...

It's just like heaven and God.

It's just make-believe.

That's what he believes.

So he doesn't believe that there is a creator.

And if you don't believe that there is anything higher than man,

then

you probably would believe that.

That there's nothing bigger than me.

What a horrible way to live, but he's wrong.

And he says there's no biological proof of rights.

Well, it's weird because there is biological proof of sex and gender, but you don't want to recognize that.

Why?

Because you don't believe in God.

So you reject that science

while taking scientific

avenues and

shortcuts to back up something that you believe over here.

This is the basic question,

and we all have to answer this.

Do you have rights?

Or is it just something we all made up?

A lot of people now believe that if we have any rights, it's given to us by government.

Now,

that's a little terrifying because a government that can issue rights can take all rights away.

According to that new survey I mentioned, America's elite class already thinks we have too much freedom and they trust the government to figure out the right balance for our rights.

His commentary on human rights is the polar opposite of the view of natural rights in our Declaration.

Nature's God

gives us natural rights.

If you can't do it in the animal kingdom, you can't do it.

And then God also sets aside some certain rights and some rights and wrongs.

Our mission statement as a country is our Declaration of Independence.

It's an amazing thing.

It's our DNA.

But they've intentionally, since the 1920s, stopped teaching it.

It is our mission statement.

It is the DNA of freedom.

And it follows a logical progression.

All people, all people, are created equal.

God gives all people certain certain inherent rights that cannot ever be changed or denied by anyone.

These essential rights are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

To protect those rights, we set up government.

Men set up government.

What is the government's job?

To protect the rights of people.

Then it goes on, when a government fails to protect these inherent rights, the people have the right and the responsibility to change or replace it.

Now, these are the principles that make the Declaration just as relevant today as it was when it was, before it was an old dusty document.

Government exists to protect humans' basic rights that no government issues, but God does.

The existence of these inalienable rights, that's what led to the Constitution, not the other way around.

The Declaration of Independence is our mission statement.

The Constitution is the operator's manual or the how-to blueprint to implement that mission statement.

And our founders were so freaked out by government and people who were corrupt and just felt that they could lord over you, literally,

They wrote the Bill of Rights, which was the insurance policy.

It was a writer on the Constitution.

By the way, I know you just read the instruction manual, but just to reinforce, you can never violate these things.

And it's worked remarkably well all over the world, imperfectly, but it's worked.

The foundation is solid.

Unfortunately, we have a slab leak.

You know what that is?

It's the progressive idea that

the truths change over time.

That is seeped into our foundation.

Now it's all about my truth, your truth.

There is no such thing as my truth or your truth.

There is only truth.

And we may misunderstand that truth.

We may evolve in our understanding of that truth.

But we are on a constant search for truth.

Not your truth, my truth, the truth.

And if, according to progressivism, the truth truth changes over time, then so can rights.

According to this my truth, your truth world, rights are not inalienable.

Rights of a child to be free from sexual predators.

Rights of a child.

Well, no, if we change the meaning of pedophilia and say, no, you know what, that's their right, then that child doesn't have the rights that you and I always thought they had.

Postmodern progressivism would have you believe that we as people have evolved so far past the America of our founding documents that they're irrelevant.

We have science, we have experts, we have AI to guide us now.

We have science, we have experts, we have AI.

Except for AI, that's exactly what the Germans had.

They had scientists, doctors, nurses, experts.

President Lincoln wrote

that the truths that are found in the Declaration of Independence are applicable to all men at all times.

That today and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

We need to renew our commitment to the essentials of our founding.

There are people on both sides now that are saying, you got to get rid of the Constitution.

We have to do things that are not in the Constitution.

There are people that

don't even know what real religious nationalism is, Christian nationalism.

They misunderstand it, what the real meaning of that.

And if you're with somebody who says they're a Christian nationalist, you need to know if they understand what that means.

That doesn't mean go by the Constitution.

It means we've got to force people.

We have to have a government that enforces

our Judeo-Christian values

by bringing the church in.

No, we need the church to do their part.

We need the church to stop.

Can you stop having a concert for five minutes and actually talk about the truth and apply it to today's America?

We are about to become dark monsters.

And is who's talking about it from the pulpit?

And if you want the solution, it's always look back to God.

Tyranny and oppression are scratching at the door.

I don't want a strong man from any political party to fix things.

The fix is already here.

It's in the blueprint, instruction manual, and the Bill of Rights.

That restrains government from getting a strong man.

And then our personal responsibility to be worthy of those rights is our commitment to God, however you define him.

Mr.

Harari is wrong.

America is not a nice story.

It's a complex story.

The ideas were new 250 years ago.

He's right on one thing.

When he says

it's a story,

well, it will be a story if we don't recognize the principles.

It will just be a story, and that's how everyone will frame it.

As, yeah, people said that there was this country once and they believed in rights, and they didn't do that.

They didn't do any of that thing.

They didn't have the right to fly in an airplane or have their own cars.

That was crazy.

They were very, very dangerous.

A new story is being written right now.

And unless we know the true story and stand up to defend that story,

we'll be a byword.

Freedom is a choice.

It's not naturally occurring in nature.

It's a choice.

It's one to educate yourself, know what gives you that freedom and what protects that freedom, and then staying vigilant.

Light the torch in your own self first.

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