How the Biden Admin Just Escalated WWIII | 7/7/23

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I have to admit, I'm a little pissed off.

Oh, no.

Just started me

on the wrong foot.

Got out of bed on the wrong side, maybe.

Then I hear

that we're only sending another $800 million to Ukraine.

That's it?

Yeah.

Stingy bastard.

What are they going to do with that?

I don't know.

It's not even a billion this time.

Oh, my gosh.

Pathetic.

What kind of nation can look itself in the mirror and say, yep, 800 million is enough this week.

What's that going to cover?

Catering?

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe not even that.

For a week?

The good thing, I was, you know, I had that same idea, Pat, when I heard that number.

I was like, that's just too low.

Wait, we need way too late.

it.

Why is it at $800 trillion, for example?

That would be my number.

Right.

If I didn't get to one quadrillion.

But then I saw at least we're sending cluster munitions, which

is

controversial.

Controversial, banned in many areas,

the type of thing that's a major escalation to a war.

And what I want is the White House announcing something like that.

I want to make sure everyone knows.

I want to make sure Vladimir Putin wakes up in the morning.

He's like, oh, what's going on today?

Oh.

Oh, good.

America sent cluster munitions.

Yeah, that's great.

Good.

Now, you might say, well, wait a minute.

Of course, he's on the other side of this war.

He's not going to be excited about that.

And you'd be right about that.

What my concern is, and we just talked about this yesterday, is our idiotic president, who at this point, I don't know if it's just that he's dumb or that he is lost

or that other people around him are advising him terribly.

I don't know what the

above.

All of the above, probably, probably,

is just recklessly

tempting Vladimir Putin

with

plenty of material for him to justify

what could turn into a world war, right?

Like that is what is going on.

And the conversation.

Well, Zelensky is definitely trying to drag us into one.

And if you oppose that,

why do you love Putin so much?

Why?

I mean, I don't.

If you love him so much, why don't you marry him?

You know,

it's true.

And like, I'm so sick of it.

I hate the, I was listening to an interview with Zelensky this morning, and I'm sick of the attitude of

how this is expected from us.

Like,

I want, I mean, this is very selfish, probably, but it's like, I want you to say thank you more than any other phrase.

Like, that's what I want out of all of this.

If you're going to talk to us about, don't tell us how many things more that you need.

I want you to say, I can't believe what this country's done for us.

He does this every time.

It's like, well,

we still don't have the F-22 fighter jets.

You know, a lot of these, these

mind-resistant vehicles have not performed all that well.

Oh, we're sorry.

Okay.

Well, you know what?

You can go out there with your Toyota Corolla then and see how that goes.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

It is really frustrating.

I'm not.

It also includes, by the way, you mentioned the cluster munition.

It's a huge deal.

It's also dozens of Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles.

Now, Bradley makes tanks.

I don't know if it includes, if the fighting vehicles include tanks, but that's one thing we said we wouldn't do is send them tanks and fighter jets.

And we're at least sending tanks.

The fighter jets, that's a little bit up in the air because there are those who claim we have sent them already.

And at the very least, we've kind of agreed that they're coming.

Yeah.

Right.

And so all this stuff, every one of these is another escalation and another data point for Putin to justify something terrible.

Now, look, Putin doesn't need all of our data points to justify something terrible.

He tends to do these things on his own anyway.

But the more understandable it is for the Russian people, the harder.

He justifies it in his mind, though.

And I think, like you're bringing up, the Russian people's mind, that America is the enemy and they're the ones who are keeping this thing going.

Right.

Look, I just don't find any confidence that

this president can walk this line successfully.

And that's what's really, really terrifying about it.

You know, I don't like spending a lot of money.

I don't like what's happening over there on either side.

And it's money we don't have, by the way.

It's money we don't have.

We don't have any of this.

How does this happen over and over and over again?

And we're printing it.

We're hurting our military by sending all of our stuff over there.

Yeah.

And they're one of the reasons they're talking about these cluster munitions going over, which again is a really big deal.

It's a huge story.

The Biden administration itself was saying it wasn't going to do this again.

They said the same thing with the tanks.

They said the same thing with the fighters.

They've said this over and over and over again.

We're not doing that.

We're not going to do that.

That's crazy.

And then they do it.

And these cluster munitions, which are really controversial and

an absolute escalation here, are now going over there.

And one of the reasons they say this is happening,

we're going to include controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine because they're going through their counteroffensive and officials believe providing munitions will give Kiev an edge as its supplies of conventional weapons dwindle.

So they're running out of conventional weapons.

We're like, oh, I'll just send him these new upgraded, you know, deadly cluster munitions.

And well, I'm sure Vladimir Putin will be fine with that.

Again, he's crazy.

I understand you can't micromanage his feelings.

I get that.

But the more

bites bites at the apple that this guy has, that we are just saying, well, just control yourself.

Just don't do it.

Just don't fire the nuclear weapon.

Just don't escalate it in some major way.

Just don't fire at Poland.

Just don't do it.

I know we're escalating things, but control yourself, Vladdy.

Every time that is the calculation being made, and it is being made every single day.

Every time that happens, it's another bite at the apple.

It's another lottery ticket in a lottery that is very, a lot easier to win than the one at your local convenience store.

And one of these times,

it is really scary that at one of these points, he's just going to say, screw it.

And then we are in the middle of a world war with a Russian nuclear power that

I don't know if you caught the news from this week.

We're getting rid of our last bit of chemical weapons, supposedly, after a very long disposal

chain.

No one believes Russia did that.

No one believes that Russia would.

I mean, it's inside their military documents that when they get into these types of positions and things aren't going well, they go to the nuclear option.

And not the nuclear option, like, well, they're going to have a filibuster in the Senate.

No, like the real nuclear option.

That's what that means in war.

Right.

I just don't have any confidence.

And they over and over and over again, the Bidens have shown that they can't handle this.

So why would we believe that they could do it this time?

That's, it's, it's it's still the biggest story out there in so many ways.

I think it is.

Yeah.

Um, they describe a little bit the cluster munitions, if you're not familiar with them, they're designed to take out multiple military targets by scattering large numbers of explosive bomblets over a wide area.

This is like

in the first Iron Man movie when

What's His Face is showing them his name in the movie?

It's a great scene, Tony Stark.

Yeah, yes.

When Tony Stark is showing the military his new playthings,

one of the things that they fire off is a cluster bomb where it goes in a whole bunch of different directions and blows everything up.

Well, that's what we're giving them.

These are not precision missions.

These are not designed to take out one person

in some precision manner.

This is widespread destruction.

And look, we should have these weapons.

We should have them in our military.

We should have them available for us to use when we need them.

But

this is a totally different thing.

And,

you know, it shows again, like,

if you're using this type of weapon, you're sending a message that you're not trying to hit precision targets.

Right.

Like, that is, it's a, it's a message sender.

You're, you want to take out wide swaths of people.

That's what you want to do with it.

Yes.

You know, this is, and look, I want to state this again.

I do not,

I do not

say to the Ukrainians they can't be doing this stuff for themselves.

They should be able to fight for themselves, for their land.

They should be able to.

And like, that's great.

The question is, are we supposed to do this for them?

Are we supposed to supply all the stuff?

for them.

Are we supposed to be the other side of this war?

Because if we say they need it or they lose, we're just saying we're at war two.

We're just saying we are such a vital part of this that we,

if we do not step in, the Russians will win.

Well, when the Russians are trying to win a war, how are they going to see that?

They're going to see us as the opposition.

And eventually that can spin out of control very, very easily.

And I, you know, I just don't.

There is, if, you know, Ronald Reagan in his prime, maybe you have confidence in something like this.

Maybe you could, you know, commit yourself to believe that he would walk the line perfectly and

everything would be measured perfectly.

We've got a guy who can't get through three sentences who's managing this war.

We've got Kamala Harris

who can't explain the most basic of concepts.

We have Anthony Blinken, who doesn't even have the H in his name.

It's not even Anthony.

It's Anthony.

What happened to the H?

You're trusting a guy with no H and Anthony?

An Antony?

To micromanage this problem?

The H went to hell.

That's where it went.

That's where it went?

Yeah.

Okay.

Along with the rest of the administration.

And us now.

They're dragging us into hell with them.

So we got lots more coming up in 60 seconds.

Yeah.

And, you know, they're supposedly the Ukrainians are losing ground right now.

That's what a lot of the reports are stating that, you know, Russia's making some headway right now.

And yeah, and if they're already out of everything we've already sent them, I just.

This is why, This is why we're probably sending the cluster munitions, right?

This isn't working.

Now, Zelensky's take on that was, look, it's going a little slower than we expected.

I think his quote was, we'd all love it to go faster, which again, that's not the message of a confident we're wondering over the enemy, you know, type of situation.

And I don't expect it to.

Talking about this, if you really dig down in the details, and I don't think most people want to at this point, because it's not fun to think about, it's really a terrible, you know, terrible situation.

But there are so many mines now set up by the Russians for these advances as the Ukrainians attempt to make them that they can't get anywhere.

They get five feet and things are blowing up all over the place, even when they're not fighting because of the mines that are set.

So this is, we're into a point where it looks like we're going to be in a stalemate for a while.

Maybe there will be a little progress here and there,

but this could go, this could go on for a really long time.

And our government is saying, as long as they need the money to keep flowing to them, we'll just keep providing it.

Yeah.

And if they're alluding to the things not going well now, what's it going to be like six months from now?

I mean, they're going to be pushing harder and harder and harder for the fighter jets.

There's another story that just broke because of, I guess it's been declassified this information.

But just to show you the kinds of things that they're considering sending to Ukraine,

it's unbelievable.

And Putin is not going to appreciate it if we start sending them F-22s, even F-16s.

But here's an example of what the F-22 can do.

About 10 years ago, an F-22 successfully intercepted and intimidated an Iranian F-4 aircraft after that aircraft threatened a U.S.

drone.

So what the pilot did was, and here's the kind of technology involved.

They're so stealthy, these F-22 stealth fighters, that they didn't even know it was there.

And he flew underneath the Iranian plane and checked out what kind of munitions they had.

Oh, my gosh.

Then he swung over to just the left of

the Iranian jet and told him,

you should probably go home now.

You ought to go home now.

Just showing the superior capability of this stuff that we have that's available and will probably be sent.

Oh, yeah.

And when it is, that's going to blow things up.

It's going to blow up the situation.

Zelensky will, at that point, have successfully dragged the rest of the world into this war.

And can we do something that I thought the government was good at?

I mean, the government sucks at pretty much everything, but can we do one thing?

Can you at least lie a little bit?

Can you not tell us every stupid thing you're sending over there?

Can we not, I know this sounds like I'm not demanding.

I'm demanding less transparency.

Kind of.

You know, I understand like we have.

When national security is involved.

But when there's national security involved,

if this is going to happen, and again, I think it's highly questionable.

But if it's going to happen, Vladimir Putin shouldn't be reading about it on Twitter.

Right.

Right?

Like, why does he know about all of this stuff every single time?

Like, it should be one of those situations like, hey, isn't that an F-22?

I don't know where they got it.

Maybe they went to the Kia dealership and they had one.

I don't know.

It wasn't us.

You know who has a lot of F-22s

because they have just superior quality military hardware.

And that's Zimbabwe.

Right.

Yeah, that's probably where it came from.

Probably

pissed off at the Russians anyway, so they sent them a bunch of fighters.

Ask Zimbabwe.

That should be our response.

It was just hashtag Ask Zimbabwe every single time this comes up.

It's incredible.

Like, what happened to war?

What happened to, hey, we're not going to to tell our enemy every single thing we're doing.

We're turning into the red coats again.

Here we come in formation.

Bright red coats.

Come shoot at us.

Like, we're, we're begging them to start a world war.

Had we started this back in World War II, we'd all be speaking German right now.

Yeah.

So

it's not smart.

Yeah.

And I know it goes against everything we talk about, and that's them being truthful and transparent in an administration.

But there's times when giving too much much information is not appropriate.

Yeah, like it should be in the reports.

It's dangerous.

These things should be in reports.

We should know about them, certainly eventually.

But saying in real time, we're about to start sending cluster munitions to the Ukrainians

and tanks and Bradley tanks.

And we're thinking about sending them our fifth generation fighter jets, too.

Don't worry about it, though.

We haven't yet.

What about the plausible deniability of it all?

You know, like,

this is the type of stuff that you used to need in war, right?

Like, there'd be a vehicle there, and they'd be like, we could see it's yours.

And we're like, you know, I don't know what you're talking about.

I don't know.

I don't know what you're talking about.

And like, we can still say, you're right.

We need to be able to track the money that goes over there, which, of course, we're not doing appropriately.

We should know where they're spending money and sending it over there.

But we don't need to know every single type of weapon.

Even if we gave a broad number of we're sending

$800 million in munitions over there, that is probably enough information.

We don't need to give every strategical advantage that we might be giving the Ukrainians.

And this is, of course, I'm saying this arguing from the administration's perspective, which I know not everybody in the audience agrees with, that

we should be funding Ukraine in the first place.

But taking that whole conversation out of it for a second, if we're going to send $800 million,

we shouldn't be telling them everything we're sending, everywhere it's going, everywhere it's going to be used, how it's going to be used, and then providing targeting information and admitting, admitting we are giving them live targeting information of Russian troops.

Our people are saying, hey, nuts.

This area, we found these troops here.

This is where you target them.

We're not like giving them stuff and letting them fight.

We're running the war in a large sense.

And look, we would be pissed about this if another country was doing it to us.

Whether we were right or wrong, even if we were wrong to go invade Mexico or something, if Russia was sending all this stuff to Mexico, we'd be pissed.

We would.

We would be pissed.

Yeah.

Yes.

And I am not rooting.

I am not rooting for Russia to win.

I don't, I think what they did was horrible when this started.

And they have committed atrocity after atrocity after atrocity.

They're not the good guys here.

But like, what are we doing?

I care about us most.

That's what I care about.

What a scene of.

It's crazy.

Wow.

The Glenn Back Program.

It's Patton Stu for Glenn today.

He's back on Monday,

888727BECK.

We were just talking about our latest contribution to

Ukraine in the form of $800 million in more military equipment.

Now, Stu expressed some reservations,

especially due to the fact that we've got a commander-in-chief like we do,

brain-dead Biden.

But I'm here to reassure you, the guy's on top of things.

Maybe you didn't see him yesterday and how sharp he was.

Oh, okay.

So, this is the problem.

Yeah.

Sometimes, you know, you lose focus.

You get these impressions that people maybe aren't operating at the highest capacity, and you miss the most recent information.

Right.

You know, how is he doing today?

Exactly.

And here's some of what he had to say yesterday.

Mom and dad are here.

By the way, if you have seats, sit down.

I'm sorry.

I once said, everybody take a seat and there were no seats.

I said, Biden's so stupid didn't know there were no seats.

That's pretty good.

Isn't that good?

Pretty good.

At least he didn't talk to Chuck.

Yeah, right.

Right.

Which he has done in the past.

Chuck Graham, state senator's here.

Chuck, stand up, Chuck.

Let him see you.

No.

Oh, God love you.

What am I talking about?

You never know what you're talking about.

So, even back then, yeah, he couldn't stand.

That was this particular gentleman in a wheelchair.

He was in a wheelchair, could not stand up.

So, stand up, Chuck, was not particularly good advice to this

individual.

So, he's done that before, too.

And then he had a little trouble with the podium yesterday.

But, I mean, that could happen to anybody.

Right.

Thank you, Nicky Vinnard.

If you wonder what I'm kicking here, I'm kicking a stand-in.

What?

But it's not working.

How about that?

All right.

Maybe I stand on and give my zombie 6'4.

These are all intentional ones, too.

Yeah.

It's important to know.

He's just blundering his way through this.

But this is not like him messing up.

This is him trying to relate to people and like be funny.

And see, that's the thing.

He thinks he's so brilliantly funny and charming, witty, and he's none of those things.

And so every time he goes down these roads, it ends up hitting a brick wall and he just crashes.

It's really bad.

Really bad.

But then he went back to an old standard that he, I mean, he talks about this all the time.

If I said to you six years ago, we're worried about a supply chain.

You look at me like, huh?

Well, I would have looked at you the same way.

Okay, the supply chain thing.

Have you noticed that he does this a lot?

That he talks about how nobody, we're too stupid to understand what a supply chain is.

Because apparently he didn't know up until six years ago what a supply chain was.

Really?

You don't.

I've never heard him say that before.

That's the

same multiple times, especially lately.

Really?

Where he complains that...

I know this is a complicated idea, but there's something called a supply chain.

Yeah.

Yeah, we all knew where to go.

Fourth grade, I think.

We were taught about the supply chain.

To be fair, he has governed as if he was unaware of it.

Yes, he has.

So it's possible he's telling the truth here.

We should be fair.

Joe Biden when we can.

It's hard, though.

It's kind of hard because not only is there the commander-in-chief who's so sharp and so good and so relatable, but he's got a vice president who is on fire as well.

Kamala Harris is ⁇ I mean, the way she explains things, really powerful.

Really, really powerful.

Like, I know you've never heard of this, but she explains this frog in the water thing.

Oh, that was brilliant.

Here's what she said, just so you know.

And I would also ask this, of all the friends in the sisterhood here,

you know that thing about the frogs and the pots?

Uh-oh.

What?

Okay, so here it goes.

Okay.

Okay.

Because nobody's heard this before.

And there's two frogs.

Okay.

There's two frogs.

In one pot of water, you put the frog in and you slowly turn up the heat.

Okay.

And that frog's kind of like, oh, it's getting kind of warm in here.

And then the heat keeps going up to boiling and that frog perishes oh no in the other pot you turn up the heat up on high get that water boiling you put the frog in it he's gonna jump out

let's not be that first frog

let's not be that first frog yeah let's not be that first frog

yeah okay

As if we've never heard it before, as if she's never told it before.

There's another one where they, it's on repeat.

I mean, she tells that frog story all the time.

And every time she does, she approaches it like nobody has ever heard it before.

It's a very traditional, like a very common story.

Everybody's very common.

And it's also not true, right?

Isn't it?

Isn't that they've looked at it and

they just jump out.

It is jump out.

They're not that dumb.

They're smarter than they're too hot for them than they jump out.

Right.

The frogs are smarter than the vice president.

That's the lesson of the actual story.

She's having these veep thoughts all the time.

She had another one yesterday where she's trying to, I don't know if we had that.

The culture?

Yeah, the culture explaining that?

Yeah.

Oh, geez.

Here it is.

Cut seven.

Well, I think culture is

a reflection of our moment and our time, right?

And dumb and nodding.

And

present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment.

Okay.

And

we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy.

Because every

reflection of joy.

It comes in the morning

that's really funny

we have to find ways to also express the way we feel about the moment in terms of right just having language and and connection and to how people are experiencing life and i think about it in that way

she thinks about it in terms of having a language and we do we do have a language

that is

it's hard to express now first of all i should point out i didn't realize that was at the Essence Festival.

I did hear that from my luxury box.

Just sadly, you missed quite a few things because it faces the other direction.

You told us yesterday.

So that, first of all, but secondly, like, that's also, like, it's so hard to focus on this because it's such a dumb

group of words put together that you get lost in the fact that

it's a Veep thought, right?

Like, we do these bits called Veep Thoughts on Studios America.

Yes.

It's available, by the way, at VeepThoughts.com.

It's funny.

the frog in the water thing was we did that last week.

With her?

With a totally different clip.

It wasn't even this clip.

It was a turn on the same story horribly just last week.

Yes.

So VeepThoughts.com, if you want to check those out.

But I do.

I do want to check those.

You should.

You should.

I'm going to encourage you to.

I'm going to subscribe.

Maybe not right this second, but I will.

Yeah.

Subscribe to the YouTube channel.

First chance I get, I'm going.

We'd appreciate that.

Okay.

But like, it's also a really terrible answer as to what culture is.

Culture is not how we react to the moment.

Well,

in terms of the moment, yeah, it's how you react.

No, it's not.

In terms of like language.

It's like...

But what about the language?

But it's like exactly the opposite of that.

Right?

Like, culture is not something that is your immediate reaction to what's happening at a moment.

That's not what culture is.

That's very true.

Right?

Like, culture is something that's developed over a long period of time that is like a fundamental

ingredient to the recipe of your nation, right?

It's not, hey,

the Titanic sub went down.

How are we reacting to it?

That's not culture.

That's not what that is.

Like she doesn't even know what these words mean.

Right.

And I think at times we lose sight of this because we just weighed in it on a day-to-day basis.

Think about the collection of adults you are faced with in the news every day.

These are the dumbest people that any of us deal with on a regular basis.

And And they're all on television.

They're all on television running the country.

And I mean, Corinne, I've never met a person in my life that's dumber than Corinne Jean-Pierre.

I've never in my life.

How many people have you interacted with in situations that they've achieved nothing in their lives?

Maybe they've had a horrible drug addiction.

Maybe they dropped out of school in the second grade.

You go, you meet them in some environment, in the workplace, in the economy.

They're all smarter than Karina Jean-Pierre.

They're all smarter than Kamala Harris.

Everyone I've ever met in my entire life is smarter than the people I see on television every day.

How is that possible?

How do we pick all of the worst ones in a row?

I don't know.

How does this happen?

I don't know.

But seriously, Kamala is trying to fool us as if she is really smart and she knows all of these things and she explains and expresses them in a way in which the dummies like us can understand it.

Yes.

You know, because

we've got all the intelligence of a bathroom bulb brush, and she knows that.

So she's got to put it in terms of language

and what's happening in the moment.

Our reaction.

In terms of language.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It's frustrating, isn't it?

These are the people that got the most votes in human history.

81 million.

And man, they beat us over the head with that still.

And then you look at them in action and it's like, oh my gosh, how?

I mean, China must be, Xi Jinping must be celebrating these people every single day.

The opportunities we've provided to the rest of the world and the terrible people who run some of those countries, it's remarkable.

It is.

We achieved so much and put ourselves in such a good position.

over the past, you know, 50 to 100 years.

I mean, 200 years, really.

And we're coming up on

250 years of this.

And we've put ourselves in such a good position, and we continue to squander it.

It really is incredible to see it happen.

You have to be trying to squander it to the extent.

I ask the question on my show a lot, Packer Unleashed, by the way, which you can do.

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But as I've said multiple times, and now I've forgot

what I said,

I went off on such a side road there that

it's clouded my mind.

Yeah.

So

they're not brilliant.

They're not good leaders.

And

it's embarrassing.

It's just embarrassing.

Does China have these?

Do they have these issues where they're finding cocaine in the Chinese leaders' palace?

They're finding viruses that get released to the population.

I mean, look, I'm not going to sit here and say that

the other

nations around the earth have good leadership either.

They're terrible too.

But like,

only when we have people like we have in charge here could,

you know, could we have situations where other nations and dictators can make gains against us?

We really shouldn't.

This should be an easy time in some ways.

We really should.

We really should.

We've got through the Cold War.

We've gone through a lot of these big challenges.

This shouldn't be so hard.

And look, the only reason why you have people like this running so much of our government is because the opposition parties sucked a lot too.

And they haven't been able to convince, take the, take those gains and convince people they should be locked in for a long period of time.

That's been a problem as well.

Yeah.

This is the question I ask on my show all the time.

If you were trying to destroy destroy the country, what would you do differently than the Biden administration?

They're doing it on purpose.

They're bringing us down to the level of the third world nations because they can't bring them up to ours.

So we have to be knocked down.

And that's what they've been doing for all these years.

And that's, you know, that's the process that I don't know if it started with Barack Obama, but he really kicked it into high gear.

And now Biden's trying to finish that job.

It is the fundamental transformation of the United States of America.

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Did you see that the Eagles have announced?

Not the Philadelphia Eagles, sadly, because it would be great if they went on a farewell tour.

Wouldn't it?

It'd be just, we're over.

We're done.

I hope not.

We've had enough.

But it's not Philadelphia.

It's the Eagles' farewell tour for the last time

again.

I mean, I don't know how many last tours they've done, but it's more than one for sure.

It does seem that way.

They say that this tour is probably going to last all the way through 2025.

So it's a long tour.

And they claim that they're just going to book as many dates as the

fans

warrant, really.

So if they sell out one, they're going to do another one.

They sell that out, they'll do another one.

So it could be a really lengthy tour.

But this is your last chance to see them.

Right.

I'm going to the Eagles somewhere.

It won't be your last chance to see them unless they die.

Yes, they will eventually keep giving you more dates.

Why would you not collect non-stop money?

Why would you not?

Why would you not?

You know, it's funny.

Like, I don't know what's going to happen to music going forward.

Like, they were, you know, they've been looking at like these, the Spotify numbers and, you know, these streaming numbers.

And what they're finding is people are, the percentage of music played that is old is higher and higher and higher and higher all the time.

And what qualifies as old?

Like 2015 or are we going back to the 70s?

A lot of it's like 70s, 80s, 90s.

Like people are just going back to stuff they're familiar with, and the new stuff doesn't catch on because there's no longer that

thing that brings us all together where we all listen to the same song.

I mean, again, there's like three, and then there's three or four artists that completely obliterate everyone else.

You know, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, WhatsApp, Adele.

There's like a few of them that just completely rule the landscape to the point of

shocking ability.

And these smaller, there's no mid-level left in music.

There's a lot of, there's tons and tons of small people, and you can get super niche, and you can find an audience there, but like that mid-level

person doesn't exist as much anymore.

And

where are the people touring later on?

Like, you're going to have those big artists doing it, but like,

it's hard to know whether that's going to hold together.

The rest, where's the rest of them?

I mean, they'll figure it out.

People like music, so something will happen.

But it is an interesting thing to watch develop.

Yeah, it is, because it's completely different with, you know, people don't buy albums anymore.

You just put together all the songs you like on Spotify and you're done.

Yeah, you don't have to buy a thing.

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Wow.

The CBS morning show featured a representative from a company called August that sells feminine hygiene products.

And

we've gone so far downhill.

We're just being flushed down the drain here.

This

is

impossible to believe until you see it.

I mean, if somebody just told me, well, you know what the representative of that company

that sells feminine hygiene products said?

That, you know,

they want their brand to be more inclusive to all genders.

Oh,

wait.

Why?

Why?

Why?

I mean, I know you want to sell more crap, but I don't think men want.

But yeah, let's take a look at this and see if you agree with her.

August, to me, is the result of spending years in the space identifying pain points, whether they be around sustainability.

Like I grow painting pads, most pads have enough plastic for like three to five plastic bags, right?

So very scratchy, very uncomfortable, but also wanting a period-positive, gender-inclusive brand.

So we are August wanting a gender-inclusive name.

On the back, it says we're here for everyone who menstruates.

And I think, especially in this age of transphobia, it really means a lot to us to be proudly a gender-inclusive brand.

Transphobia.

But everything about the product, we try to be super thoughtful about from how we design it to be as comfortable, as absorbent as possible, but also as sustainable as possible.

Is that as big a bunch of BS as you've ever heard from anybody on national television?

It's so bizarre.

It is.

You're left with, I don't even know how to respond to that now.

It's,

you want

positive gender inclusive

feminine hygiene you can't even call it that anymore because it's for it's masculine as well as feminine apparently men i guess now have reason to buy

uh pads it's hard i think at times you have to boil it down to the basic math and plumbing right where it's like what they're saying is A woman who is saying they are a man

still has their period because they are still a woman.

Okay.

So, but we're going to deny that they're still a woman.

We're going to say that they are a man just because of their words.

They've decided they're a man, so they're a man.

And so this man can have periods.

Right.

And so we're including the people who are women, but say they're men and they can also buy our product.

Okay.

Sure, anyone can buy your product, but

not that many people, like there's one side of the aisle,

assuming assuming women are on one side of the aisle and men are on the other.

There is one side of the aisle that

actually does need the period positive product, or at least it's the same.

Or the PPPs as they've come to be known.

Yeah, that's the category, of course.

But like one thing that doesn't

cause the problems that you're worried about is transphobia.

No one is scared.

I'm terrified of transgendered people.

Therefore, I will not recognize their

decided change of their gender based on their thoughts.

Like, that is not transphobia.

No, it isn't.

And I'm not scared of transgendered people.

What they're suffering from is fact phobia.

Yeah.

They're really afraid of the truth.

Yeah.

Truth phobia, fact phobia.

Just admit it.

If you're a man, you don't need a feminine hygiene product.

You don't need it.

Because you're never going to be period positive.

So you can be as gender inclusive as you want.

It still doesn't do anything for men.

And like what part of this, part of this, I think the reason why this connects with some people, there are some like just ideologues on the left that are just going to say whatever.

But I think for an average person

who

is trying to be inclusive and nice and understanding is basically what they're internally doing.

And I, and you do this all the time, I suppose, in other circumstances, but this is what's happening.

A person comes in and they say, I know what they're saying is a lie.

I know they're not really a man.

However, I'm so nice, I'm going to ignore the truth to make them feel good.

That is essentially what goes on with a lot of people in the middle here.

They say, like, look, I don't care if this person says they're a man or a woman.

I want them to feel good.

I don't want to get in an argument.

I don't want to fight about it.

I don't want to have a weird conversation about their genitals.

So what I'm going to do is just go along with it.

And actually, it is

in some ways a

real

sacrifice for a person.

They are sacrificing their own ownership of the truth.

They know what they're doing is a lie.

They're not consciously maybe knowing this, but like in reality, what they're doing is like, I know X is true, but because I like you so much, because I'm such a good person, because I'm so nice, I will adopt your lie to show you what a good person I am.

That is, I think, what a lot of people in the middle do.

And I, in a normal conversation, I even can find some space there, right?

Like, I don't want to, and I'm not looking to get in arguments with everybody I come up with, whatever, whatever choices they're making or whatever weird thing they got going on in their lives.

Like,

hey, man, you know, we've all got our stuff, right?

Like, I don't want to do that.

But when it comes to a societal policy truth standpoint, if you don't stand up for what is accurate, you lose the basis of a civilization pattern.

And that's what's happening right now.

It's what's happening.

Yeah.

If you can't agree on basic truths, there is no civilization.

That is what brings us together.

You come up with those things that you can agree on.

that you can, we can say, okay, this is all true.

How do we deal with the stuff that there's argument on?

Well, when you create arguments with the most basic facts,

you have no foundation anymore.

And of course, this is exactly what the leftist activists want.

And if you're so sensitive that you're offended by truth, and the truth is, men don't have periods.

That's the truth.

It just is a fact.

It's a biological fact.

If you're that offended by it, then I'm sorry.

I can't help you.

I mean, people are just going to have to be offended sometimes.

But why would it offend you when it is a fact?

It is the truth.

And your situation is different, but but you don't want to be called a woman because you've made the transition to being a man.

But I'm sorry, that doesn't change the facts.

Yeah.

I remember us doing a show years ago together,

called Patton's Do, by the way.

Wonderful show.

And we were talking, we were, we, it was at the beginning of all this stuff really starting to come out.

And the T was starting to rise above the LG and the B.

Yeah.

And we were listening to one of the most famous L's in the country, Ellen DeGeneres.

And she was still doing her show and someone, they were having this conversation and we played the clip back and I never forget this because it really set something for me as you look at this debate.

She said,

she said, again, this is not, I'm not accepting this exactly, but like, it's interesting to hear from their perspective how they think about this.

And she said,

your sex is your sex.

Like that is like man, woman, male, female, right?

Yeah.

Your gender is how you feel about it inside.

No, it's not and and like i don't

forget that it's wrong for a second right forget that for one second yeah because we should come back to that it is important that it's wrong but also it's just not important

it is not important to me as a talking in a societal perspective

whether you feel like you're something else or not That is not something that is important to measure.

It might be important for your family members.

It might be important for your friend.

It might be important for your spouse.

It might be important for your coworkers.

They might care about how you feel about crap, but I don't care how you feel about crap.

That's not my job.

My job designing policy is not to feel, well, these people feel this way.

Who cares?

What are they?

What are their actual features as human beings?

Not their feelings.

You don't base policy on feelings.

It might be interesting to your therapist how you feel, but it's not interesting to me.

We base policy on factual measures of what humans are doing, how much is being earned, how,

you know, you can base things on, and the left loves to do this, basing things on race and gender and all these other things.

But feelings are a totally separate thing.

Yeah.

It doesn't matter.

It doesn't change the facts.

It doesn't change the facts.

It's not the truth.

Just like if I believe that water isn't wet,

I believe it's dry.

Yeah.

I identify with water as being a dry substance.

And so is society, in order not to offend me, going to accept the fact that water is dry?

Right.

No.

No.

No.

We would say it's not dry.

It's not dry.

Now, it might be interesting to your

friends and family that, gosh, did you know Pat thinks water is dry?

Like, what do we do with that?

Like, we, what if we splash some water on him?

Will he still believe that?

Right.

Does Does he need therapy?

Does, do we, should we just like, and look, sadly, here's a great, sad example of this.

Alzheimer's.

You get to a point where you're just, you know, you go in and you talk to your, your, your grandfather, who's, who's got Alzheimer's, your father who's got Alzheimer's, and you just, you know what, you let them adopt a reality that isn't reality.

And you sympathize with them and you feel terrible for it.

And you go in there and you go, yeah, yeah, I know.

I guess mom who passed away 20 years ago, she might be in next week.

I'm not sure when she's coming by.

And you let them live in that reality at some point.

And it's a sad part of life, but it is a sad part of life.

It is sad that you have to do that.

You're crushed by it.

Your soul is crushed by that moment.

And there's an obvious ailment there.

Yeah.

And it's so true.

We were talking about this, I think, on News and White Matters, Pat, last week, that the actress Megan Fox.

Now, she apparently has

like 94 trans children.

I wasn't even aware of that.

I didn't know that either.

I thought you pointed that out.

No.

So don't quote me on that.

I thought that was your point.

Were you seeing someone else on News and Wi-Fi?

No, we were talking about it.

I wasn't on last week.

Oh, no.

You know what?

So you were seeing somebody else.

I'm sorry.

Oh, my gosh.

I'm sorry.

No, this is awesome.

I'm so sorry, honey.

No.

I'm so sorry.

This is awkward.

So Megan Fox.

So apparently, no, you know what?

It was Jason Butchell.

I apologize.

Jason Butchell was on with us.

And Sarah Gonzales, they were telling me that I guess she has trans children.

She's very active in this community.

But the reason I brought her up was different, which was she, if you know who Megan Fox is, the thing you probably know about her is she's an incredible actress.

But secondly, you might know her for her.

She acts?

I didn't realize that.

Weird.

The second thing you might know her for is her appearance.

She has

been quite attractive to many.

I've heard that.

Somewhere between many to all males find her incredibly attractive.

And what's, I guess, interesting about her is that she does not see herself that way.

She has some body dysmorphia issue where she feels she's like hideously ugly and she can't under, she can't mentally,

she just thinks she looks awful all the time.

She can't mentally, it's like, you know, someone who's anorexic who thinks they're fat, right?

Oh, yeah.

She's got that type of issue.

And I don't know all the details about it, but I thought it was fascinating because everyone on earth looks at her and goes, oh my gosh, she's incredibly looking.

And she can't see it.

And the answer to that for her is not to go to her and say, you know what, you're right.

You're ugly.

Right.

You know what?

You're right.

We need to affirm your ugliness.

Yes.

We need to tell you that you're hideous.

We need to tell you that you are the most revolting creature on the planet and make you comfortable in the world where that is the truth.

That is not the way we treat that.

Nope.

It is not the way we treat that whether we go to a young girl and tell her, you know what, your anorexia, actually, you are fat.

You're really fat.

You need to eat less fatty.

That is not how we would do that.

We would be eating

irresponsible.

It's irresponsible and dangerous.

It would cost people

their lives.

And by the way, this trans stuff has done that as well.

There have been multiple reports of

women going into the hospital and having all sorts of internal problems.

And the problem is they say they're men.

And the doctors don't know what's wrong with them because they're like, what's going on?

There's some crazy ailment.

We can't detect it.

Well, it's because they're pregnant and they're actually women.

They're not men.

Now, I don't know if the doctor really couldn't detect this or because I found it to be, you know, when they talk about trans awareness, you don't really need too much awareness.

You can usually tell.

But other than that, we're talking about a person here who I think the doctors know.

They know this is actually a woman who's pregnant.

But they say, gosh, we can't say that because they're saying they're a man.

So we can't check for pregnancy.

We can't check for that.

And babies have died because of this.

It's disgraceful.

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Joy Reed, brilliant as usual.

Was this just yesterday, I think?

I think just

yeah, yesterday, because she's talking about the 4th of July and the fact that she couldn't leave her home.

Here's what she had to say.

Bro, I have to say, I did not go out on July 4th and would not.

The idea of going to a mass gathering, a parade, or a big fireworks thing outside seems insane to me, to be blunt, in America, because America is awash with guns.

And now people don't just have them.

They seem to want to shoot people with them and use them for whatever, you know, for whatever.

What do you think has changed in this country, which has always had a lot of guns in the recent years to make it a shooting gallery?

Huh.

What society is she talking about?

Where you can't even go outside on the 4th of July because the fireworks are covering up the gunfire.

Maybe in Chicago, that's a concern.

Is that where she lives?

If you're in a Democrat-run city, there might be some issues there where you should be.

cautious at least, but that is.

This is a bizarre.

You want to talk about a moral.

You know, they used to have these moral panics where, like, people would, and this was something the left used to always say was the worst thing in the world.

People would like freak out over, you know, like satanic, you know, uh, lyrics in your records where you spin them backwards and all this stuff.

Right.

Like, this is what this is.

I went to multiple Fourth of July festivals, no shootings at them.

Um, in fact, every town in America basically had one, and there were, what, two incidents?

And they were, and by the way, the one big one was some trans black person who

would be the first person defended by Joy Reed in any other circumstance, but they would just not even acknowledge it this week and they'll blame the guns.

All of this that goes on is so insane.

Like

the look, the odds we have too much violence in this country.

We do have a problem with some of the stuff.

It is increasing, but the odds of you being involved in something like this are incredibly low.

The fact that you would avoid a mass gathering for a reason like this is

a borderline mental problem.

Like it's it's someone being scared.

It's like being scared of letting your kids outside because they're going to get abducted

in your backyard.

You know, it's like, it's just, it's just a

crazy person's problem.

It's not that it never happens.

Of course, you have to be aware.

You know, it's, it's, there are,

we do have a problem with violence in this country.

You'd like it to be less, of course.

But like that, the country she's describing does not exist a country where you can't go to a festival because basically there's a shooting in every one of them is not that's not a reality guys that's you're so afraid that you can't even leave your house on the fourth of july that's your problem yeah i mean we said this yesterday maybe it's just you you know maybe it's still maybe joy it is just her it's just her she's just stark graving nuts and that's why she says the stupid things she says on her show all the time and even with our increases in violence we're again still lower than we were in the 90s You know, it's not by as much as we used to be before the whole George Floyd riot thing took over.

Since then, we've had a massive uptick and COVID.

I mean, I think that the COVID shutdowns really screwed with our country and took a lot of people who were fringe on

their mental status already and turned them into people who acted out violently.

I think that that's true.

We have a real problem in this country.

But like, can you get a grip?

Is it possible to just get a grip of yourselves and keep things in perspective?

This is still by far the best country in the world to live in.

Oh, it's not even close.

By far.

Not even close.

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Finish off the week.

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Here we go.

Stuff for Glenn.

More of this.

More of what?

What are we doing?

More of what you're doing.

What am I doing?

I just can't take it anymore.

I've been sitting here quietly

trying, just hoping you'd come around, hoping you'd come around to

a moment of empathy.

I'm sorry I disappointed you so.

And you don't.

You continue

to

wreck people's lives with your hardcore right-wing extremist beliefs.

Yeah.

Okay.

And

they're ruining people's lives day to day.

My beliefs.

Your beliefs.

Yes.

Right-wing extremist beliefs.

Yeah.

Like your, you're

abortion extremism, for example.

Like where I don't think babies should be murdered.

Right.

Exactly.

Yeah.

You have this.

People might not know this, but Pat has this policy where he thinks children should be born.

I do.

Admittedly, I do.

And you think, you know, there's a new story out that 10,000 babies that were born in Texas that otherwise wouldn't have been.

I think that's a good thing.

It's a human tragedy.

These poor children who now have to face a life

of really equality

of varying quality.

It really could be anything.

Yeah.

But they have to face that.

I mean, they could grow up and cure cancer.

It could be.

Could bring us world peace.

They could be the possible.

They could be the next great president.

They could invent something incredible.

They also could just be really mediocre.

Yeah, they could.

They could be the person who works out next to you in the gym and sweats all over the equipment.

Regardless,

some people like you think they should have that opportunity to live, which is

one of the ways you're ruining our country, just one of them.

And I want to bring in this, maybe personalize this a little bit, Pat.

If I could tell you the story of a couple in Kentucky.

CNN tells us the story.

The headline.

They couldn't hold their daughter to say goodbye.

Oh, no.

Think of this, Pat.

The subheadline.

All they wanted to do

was hold their baby.

But strict Kentucky abortion laws meant they couldn't.

Wow, how did the abortion law get in the way of them holding their baby?

As if you don't know, as if you didn't design this law?

From beginning to end, Pat.

I'm not sure I've ever even been to Kentucky, let alone.

So the story here, Pat, is

there was a couple had a baby

growing up, I think it was 20 weeks, I want to say, 20 weeks.

And they wanted an abortion because of a birth defect.

This is obviously a, you know,

this is where they're going to try to say, okay, well, they should have had this abortion.

All they wanted to do, though, is have, they wanted to hold the baby.

That's it.

Well, Kentucky Medicaid apparently would not pay for a premature delivery to induce death.

Okay.

So, what they wanted, apparently, the design of this family was to have the baby and then let it suffocate in their arms.

Oh, my gosh.

Okay.

Slowly suffocate and die in front of them.

That's what they wanted.

The strict Kentucky abortion law would not allow that to occur.

Now, I don't know.

It kind of seems rational

to prevent someone

letting a baby die in your arms after it was just born.

That to me, in fact, I was told it was conspiracy theory that that could ever happen.

But that's what they wanted to happen.

That is not how it is framed by CNN.

So the couple, who could not afford, apparently,

a lot of these abortion

costs was then had their travel paid for to go to Chicago.

Where Chicago, where they don't apparently have these horrible abortion laws, or at least some of them, allowed this

abortion to occur, but not the way they wanted.

Because, once again, what they wanted was to give birth to the child and watch it suffocate.

So, what they did instead was cut it up inside of her.

Now, apparently, their goal, I guess, was to hold the reason they couldn't hold the baby

was because, you know, it was in several pieces.

Okay, it went, they went through a dismemberment abortion.

So

now, I guess, now, Pat, I guess in theory, even if your baby is in a bunch of pieces, you could theoretically hold it.

They said they couldn't even, they never even got to see their baby.

They don't even know what it looked like.

And they're giving this sob story.

Well,

of course, they may have been able to actually hold the individual pieces of the child, except the abortion clinic in Chicago would not give them the pieces because they wanted the pieces because they wanted to cremate the baby and have some sort of memorial.

But the abortion clinic in Chicago, who is not held up as the villain in the story at all, they're the heroes, they wouldn't give the parts to the parents because why?

What did they want to do with them?

We don't know for sure.

They wanted to sell them.

They have high value.

They wanted to sell them.

Especially when you're at 20 weeks, right?

You're very far along.

It could be that they wanted to sell them.

It could be that they wanted to, you know, there was another

hateful abortion law in Chicago that meant that they had to dispose and couldn't just hand them back to the parents.

I don't know exactly the reason for that yet.

We should also point out, though, the

quotes from the mom about the procedure.

Now, remember, the bad guys here are the this is the Kentucky abortion law.

That's the problem of the story.

The headline is about how bad the Kentucky abortion laws are and how it was made it impossible for this couple to hold their dying child.

That's the framing of the story.

Her quote about the actual procedure,

she said the procedure was, quote, a nightmare and, quote, the worst pain ever, much more painful than giving birth to her daughters, her other children, who they decided to keep alive.

Yet the villain of the story is Kentucky.

for not allowing these parents to be able to watch their kids suffocate in peace.

I mean, it's just...

this does a society survive this when that's acceptable and the way it's spun is that anybody who wanted the baby to live is awful

hideous people you're you're evil again you know it's isaiah 520 where uh everything good is made to seem bad and everything bad is made to seem good yeah you take the sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet and that's where we are

how can you be on the side of the argument?

Ah, who says, yeah, what should happen is the baby should be born and should just slowly suffocate in front of the parents.

How can that possibly be the right answer?

Have any of these people taken five minutes to think about this?

How can that possibly be the right answer?

How can the right answer be?

Because they're not even discussed in this article, or really, is the idea of letting the kid try to live,

right?

It's not really even a possibility here.

it's more of like how do we get rid of it you know and look there are really difficult moments that happen to parents when you're talking about birth defects i'm not this is something that is torturous for parents to deal with i understand that but like

the the idea that the

the good guys in this story are a bunch of chicago uh abortionists who are sitting here chopping up children for profit.

How is that possibly the good thing?

Have you thought?

It's that meme that floats around every once in a while where the two Nazis are looking at each other and they say, one of them says, you know, I've noticed we have skull and crossborns on our uniforms.

Are we the baddies?

Like, are we,

is it possible we're the bad guys?

Yeah, the skull and the crossbones maybe shouldn't be.

It's possible that.

It's possible.

I just can't understand.

And you see this over and over again.

The coverage of the Texas situation, 10,000

look like they were 10,000 above what would have been expected were born in Texas after the abortion laws went away.

We were seeing numbers somewhere in the number neighborhood of 3% for the first year.

It's important to note many of the abortion laws were not put in place on day one.

It took months to for so the number will probably be higher.

It might be 5% to 10% of abortions that are saved from just overturning Roe versus Wade and red states changing their policies.

And you think about this and like the outcome.

What is the outcome of this?

Tens of thousands of people who otherwise would not be alive are instead breathing today.

What policy can you think of that the government has passed in any recent time that would actually give you that type of result?

You might be able to come up with a couple of them, you know, there might be one or two here or there, but man,

most of the time you look at this as a miracle.

If you, if they had a gun control policy that got passed and saved tens of thousands of lives, all they would do was talk about it.

Oh, yeah.

If it saves just one

life, it justifies.

Isn't it worth it?

Yeah.

That's what they'd say.

But saving 10,000,

that, of course, is a bad thing to them.

Incredible.

It's bad.

It really is a backward society.

And when you talk about it, it is everything that is liquid is solid, right?

We are there.

For sure.

They are telling you all the time that things that you know are true are false.

And if you do not go along with it and embrace it and believe it and celebrate it, you are the enemy.

What

it's so backward and it's so impossible to exist in a society that allows that.

And it's even more difficult to survive in one that encourages it, that calls it the baseline of human existence.

Every day you wake up and you recognize this truth

or you're out.

Your job's over.

You're canceled.

You're not allowed to talk to people anymore.

And yes, we're still at a place, as I just pointed out.

I think it's a great country.

And, you know, I'm still on national radio saying these things.

And we are not to the North Korea point by any means.

But we are, why walk down the road that leads there?

You don't need to go all the way there to recognize that it's a bad thing.

You got two steps.

You see the rear like triangle hotel in the distance in Pyongyang and you turn around.

That's what you're supposed to do.

And we've decided to do the opposite.

I don't know how that's going to work out for us, Pat.

Uh, not well, would be my guess.

Uh, and I know that's going way out on a limb, it is, but uh, I'm comfortable out there.

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Can I give you, we talked about Taylor Swift a little bit yesterday.

Yeah.

And

there's things people love about Taylor Swift.

You know, some people hate her.

Her politics are really annoying.

The fact that she's a Philadelphia Eagles fan fan makes me feel a little bit better about her.

It can be a little torn on a person.

But one of the things that's interesting about this is her relationship to the FTX story.

Remember Sam Bankman Freed, the crypto exchange, it blows up.

And if you remember, not this past Super Bowl, which

had a tragic ending to it, but the previous one.

There were all the crypto ads.

It was that year where

every ad was a crypto ad and Larry David was doing spots and Giselle and LeBron james and somehow lebron james always gets left out of it when they run through these people's names but um all these people took tons and tons of money to tell you that you should go to uh crypt various crypto exchanges one of which being ftx and ftx was one of the biggest advertisers so the ftx thing blows up and as it blows up one of the side stories that comes out of this is There was basically a bunch of celebrities taking money to dupe their followers, but there was one exception.

One shining light came out of this.

One person had the bravery, the chutzpah, the care for their own fans to.

LeBron.

LeBron James?

No.

Is that where this is going?

Took every time and gets no blame.

No, Taylor Swift.

She apparently has such high financial acumen that she came in and, and I wish I could have the quote in front of me, but like supposedly she came into the FTX people.

They wanted to pay her $100 million to be an FTX spokesperson.

And she said, i will i will not do this unless you can prove to me that these are not unregulated securities it's like that's the quote she supposedly said in a meeting like they said that to me at a meeting this did not occur right there's no way taylor swift came in and said by the way i want you to prove to me these are not unregulated securities and when and sam bank but free was like what i can't do that and she's like i'm not taking your nine figures that's like how it was presented to the media

um and her i guess her dad works for worked at merrill lynch and had some financial background and there was was some conversation that maybe she knew more about this than people.

And she's just a good person, would not just take this money.

Well, a new update has come out of the story months later after she got this incredible praise for the stance that she took that at no point seemed real to me.

Like I just, no offense to, I mean, I look at her political analysis and there's no way she walked into a meeting and said, I want you to tell me about unregulated securities, especially because the government can't even tell these companies if they're unregulated securities or not.

Like, that hasn't even been decided by the government yet.

So anyway, long story short, new report comes out in the New York Times that apparently what actually happened after more than six months of negotiations, Swift's team signed a sponsorship deal with the now bankrupt exchange company, FTX, worth north of $100 million.

But right before FTX signed, Sam Bankman Freed pulled out.

She had agreed to it, and it was Sam Bankman Freed who didn't sign the deal.

Wow.

So, after months of praise, she got for this, where everyone's like, oh, the one good person out there, the one good celebrity who cared about her fans.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Okay.

No, actually, she wanted the money just like everybody else.

Oh, man.

And probably was a negotiating tactic, right?

Unregulated security.

Are these unregulated securities?

And so she didn't get her money, unfortunately.

But at least she won't be involved in the lawsuits because it looks like

Tom Brady lost $30 million of stock in the deal, lost all the crypto they gave him, and now is getting sued by tons of people.

Larry David's getting sued.

These guys are all getting sued.

And it's like, it's a dumb thing.

Like, do you really think Larry David knew about crypto when he was doing the commercial?

He was making funny commercials.

Right.

It's not, it's not his fault that Sam Bankman Freed is a criminal, but they're still getting sued anyway.

Incredible.

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So the field

of potential presidents has grown quite a bit in the last few months.

And some of them are really resonating with the American people.

I think, would you say that's a safe thing to say?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Like this Suarez guy whose name I just whose first name I forgot.

Francis?

Francis.

Suarez?

Maybe Mayor of Miami.

Yes.

Powerful.

That seemed to be an up and coming figure in Republican politics, but not necessarily going to be the president of the United States.

Probably not his time now.

You know, you just see, tell me if you see this exact same thing.

People have noticed good old Mayor Pete and have decided, hey,

why can't I be the next Mayor Pete?

Absolutely.

Right.

That's absolutely the thinking.

I don't think he believes he's going to win the presidency.

But like, you know, you go to a race.

If you were the mayor of Miami as opposed to South Bend, Indiana, wouldn't you think, yeah, I got a shot.

Yeah.

First of all, he's running.

Buddha judge can do it.

I can certainly do it.

One of our major cities, a city that is doing very, very well, by the way.

And I think he's been a good mayor.

I don't follow everyday politics of Miami, but I know he's been good on a lot of things and seems to be an up-and-coming figure in Republican politics.

This is a great way to get known.

Maybe advance to a cabinet position, maybe running for governor or senator.

This is

your path, right?

Maybe he pops and gets to 12, 13% in one of these polls, like Pete Buttigieg did in some of those.

I don't think he was ever a real threat to win the presidency, but became a top contender at one point.

And that, you know, again, maybe he could turn that into turning our transportation system into a disaster as well.

Maybe that sort of.

Wouldn't that be great?

Maybe he'll get there someday.

Yeah.

So let me let me run through.

There's 12 Republicans right now: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Asa Hutchinson, Larry Elder.

You might not, you know, Larry, of course, as a conservative commentator, you might not have even known he's in the race, but he is.

Tim Scott, Dron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Chris Christie, gotten a lot of attention from the mainstream media.

Our man, Doug Bergum,

with Bergamentum.

Bergamentum Bergamentum is

Bergamania, is in effect.

Francis Suarez and Will Heard, the congressman, as well, another guy who's running from the moderate sort of side and trying to get, I think, more attention than anything else.

So you got a field of 12 here.

And I was thinking about this, and of course, on the Democratic side, Biden, Williams, and Kennedy.

You go through this, though.

And I had this question.

I was thinking to myself,

if there's been

a lot of failure here so far, like I would say you look at these candidates and you would say some of them are really good candidates, some of them not so good.

But like just looking at how they would want this to go,

you would say almost all of them have underperformed their expectations.

Or, you know, maybe they're equal with their expectations.

But if I were to ask you, Pat, who are the people in this race who have outperformed expectations, you're not going to go on for a month with candidates.

No.

Right.

Like,

I think he might come up with a

who's maybe outperformed some people's expectations.

But Vivek Ramashwami.

You know, I had him on my list.

I had three on my list that have outperformed, and he was one of them.

Because, now, again, because expectations were very low.

And people, we've had Vivek on the show many times.

This audience knows Vivek Ramaswamy has known him for years.

But he was not a major figure

being considered to be the Republican nominee.

And I wouldn't say

he has any chance, honestly, of being a Republican nominee, or at least a very high chance of being a Republican nominee, very much a long shot.

I like him, though.

I like him.

And his poll numbers have been better than you would expect.

Like, he's outperforming a lot of these people who have been talked about for years.

He's obviously a good communicator.

He's got a lot of big ideas.

I like him generally.

I think he's, you know,

again, it's going to be a tough road

coming from where he's coming from.

Yeah.

But he's got a lot of big ideas and he's, you know, he's trying to take these things on.

He's eloquent.

He's very, he's relatable.

He's a good speaker.

You know, and

so I think he's made, and he's everywhere.

I see him on the tube all the time.

Yeah.

Now, that hasn't turned into massive pollings.

No.

Yes.

No.

But he's shown some early state strength.

Was it earlier this week or was it last week?

I saw a poll where he was at 10%, which had passed, surpassed Mike Pants, which I thought, wow, okay.

Maybe there's some traction there.

And that was one of the early states, wasn't it?

I can't remember which state that was.

I thought it was one of the early states.

Was it Iowa?

Maybe.

I don't remember.

Or New Hampshire, one of those.

Yeah, his national polling has been, you know, I think he's quite as good as more like 5%

he's been able to get up to.

But again, for a guy who was basically unknown in politics a few months ago,

that's pretty good.

I mean, the fact that he's made, I would say that his first few months, he's got to be happy with it.

I would think he's looking back and say, so far, so good.

Yes.

You know, he's not leading the pack by any means, but he's there

in a place that I think he's positioned himself well enough for what he expected to happen.

So I don't know.

I thought he was one that I thought that would be kind of one that was a little under the radar, but

you called that right away.

I think he's overperformed expectations.

Another one that might be kind of obvious as overperformed expectations, I think is Donald Trump.

Oh, yeah.

Now, maybe not his own high expectations, but the fact that he really hasn't been pushed at all in the polls

is you got to give you got to give his campaign some level of credit there, right?

Like they, I think he has performed above what you would think he would perform above.

Especially with everything he's dealt with, you know,

and he's got 11 competitors and he's still around the 50% mark.

Yeah.

I mean, you look at these polls, he's up by 34, 38, 29, 24, 45, 21, 36, 30, 30, 38.

I mean, these are really good results.

And,

you know, again, DeSantis being in second place and at 20%, you know, he's about 21% he's averaging.

Trump at an average of 53 right now nationally.

But like the fact that he's in the has the majority of Republican voters and has not had yet a serious push from DeSantis or anyone else is pretty notable.

Yeah.

You know, I think so too.

That he's 30 points ahead.

That's very notable.

Now, I will say it's too early to take from these polls some conclusion i don't think that any of these people are out of it and i you know well asa hutchins is out of it but any most of the people are not out of it doug bergham may be out of it he may be bergamentum might not be able to to get us over this mountain but like

desantis has debates he's got

we are not even at the point where people are really paying attention to this you might be paying attention to it because you care about the country in a way that many do not but generally speaking the people that you you work with and

who have a general sense that they like Donald Trump or don't, have maybe a little bit of a sense on DeSantis, maybe,

maybe some Biden.

But honestly, this decision typically right now is being made, do I like Donald Trump or not?

That is essentially the one decision that people have made, even more than it is about Joe Biden.

It's like, do I like Trump?

Do I not like Trump?

That will be the referendum if he's the nominee.

That is a decision that will be

tossed around by the American people and

they will vote based on essentially that.

It will not be about whether Joe Biden's student loan policy is successful or not.

It will be about whether people can think that Donald Trump will do a better job and whether they like him or not, essentially.

Now, if it goes to a DeSantis or one of these other candidates, I think you have more of a chance of it being about Biden, which I tend to think is a good thing

because then it's not about personalities as much.

But we have no idea how DeSantis will perform in the situation if he's the nominee.

I will say,

I think you could fairly point out that the rollout hasn't been as strong as they maybe have hoped.

I think he would have liked to, I don't think he thought he'd be winning, but I think being within 10 points

would be better.

It would be better.

Digging down 30 is suboptimal, Pat.

Yes.

And I don't think it necessarily means.

a hell of a lot yet.

I don't want to overstate it.

We're just looking, you know,

the major league baseball is about the halfway point.

And you look at that and you say, well, okay, some teams are definitely in the playoff hunt.

You know, like the Atlanta Braves are probably going to make the playoffs.

Probably.

The Tampa Bay Rays are going to make the playoffs, probably.

You've seen some teams be really, really good.

The Oakland A's, probably not so much.

You can tell that now.

What you can't tell is

the fifth wild, you know, the fifth seed going to wind up having a good run and become the one or two seed and be the favorite by the playoffs.

We don't know that yet.

And I think that's where we are in this.

The other person I would say has exceeded expectations would be on the other side, and it would be RFK Jr.,

who,

again, yes, he has a name.

Yes, he's been known in liberal politics for a long time, but also is not seen at all as an actual threat to win the presidency.

I mean, he was not seen coming in as a real candidate.

I think the most surprising thing to me about RFK Jr.

is that

a lot of people on the conservative side have taken an interest in him.

And some have even said, yeah, I like that guy.

I might vote for him.

Please don't.

Please.

Please, please, by all that is holy, by all that is good, right, and holy, don't.

Look into his policies and

what he envisions for America.

Yes, because there are a couple headline ones that are bad that conservatives tend to be okay with.

The vaccine.

The sea skepticism is part of it.

He's been pretty good on the border

lately.

Lately.

You know, he has some things that you might like.

you have to look at his entire platform yes please and see you know for this climate change for instance i he essentially called everybody who doesn't agree with him on climate change a traitor yeah and not essentially he did call he did do it and he was and he wished that he had the power to do something about it like put these people in jail and i think glenn was one of the people he talked about you know the two people he mentioned specifically of being traitors to the country and people who would be up to the penalty.

We should treat them like traitors, was his quote.

Yeah.

Was not only our own Glenn Beck, but also Rush Limbaugh.

So I don't know if you like Rush

and you didn't want him dead many years earlier than he unfortunately did pass, you may consider the fact that RFK Jr.

may be not the guy you want running the country.

Now, I will say, if you're in a state where you want to cause chaos like Rush used to love causing, voting for RFK Jr.

in the Democratic primary

where you don't care about your primary mayor has already decided, it might be a lot of fun.

You know, I mean, it is, it is hilarious to see this guy with no real political base and no real

operation at 20%.

It's incredible, really.

And it's, it is exceeding expectations.

It has a lot to do with varying factors.

Number one, he actually has connected with some old school Democrats, people who are against war, people who are anti-vaccine, which, by the way, we should point out.

not a right-wing movement.

It has been a across-the-board

slew of people for a long time.

Like it's a cross-section.

It's not really partisan.

The vaccine stuff, and I'm going way before the COVID stuff, because in the COVID times, it did turn into a Republican-Democrat thing for a lot of people.

But before that, when RFK Jr.

was very active in this movement, long before any of this COVID stuff came up, he was working with people like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Kerry and all sorts of left-wing celebrities who were on this bandwagon.

And like, whatever you, I don't care what you believe about this.

Make your own freaking decisions for your family.

But the bottom line is this, there are a lot of people in the Democratic Party who look at what the Fauciism turned into and are like, what the hell is this?

This is my party, supposedly?

Like, I've been sitting here saying this stuff was bad long before COVID, and now they're forcing this on me.

The same thing with Ukraine.

I've been saying I'm a Democrat.

I've been saying I'm against war this whole time.

Now all of a sudden, I have to support it or I'm the worst person in the world?

What are you talking about?

And RFK Jr.

has connected with that group of Democrats.

And rightly so.

Yeah.

Especially with Democrats.

He should be connecting, I think.

He's closer to that traditional Democrat in a lot of ways than what we're seeing now, especially the old school Democrat.

And you know what?

One guy.

But again, these are bad policies, many of them.

The union stuff is bad.

The climate stuff is really bad.

I mean,

he's an insane person on the climate.

Abortion.

He's really bad on that.

Horrible on abortion.

Horrible.

Affirmative action.

That ruling that we all celebrated last week, he was against it.

Right.

He's not, he is.

Look, don't be fooled that he's like some conservative because he agreed with him on a couple things.

He's a hardcore mega liberal that agrees with conservatives on a couple things right now.

Yeah.

And that's important to note.

But

for Democrats,

I would love it if they nominated him instead of Biden Biden.

And there's good reason to do that.

I don't think they will.

They won't.

And that's the thing because you got the Kennedy name.

You got the name recognition.

You got

that he is connecting, I think, at some level.

But we shouldn't oversell this too.

I think it's now come full circle.

At the beginning, it was like, wait a minute, this guy they gave no chance to and no coverage to is hitting 20%.

What's going on?

He is now, now he's getting a lot of coverage.

I mean, he did the Joe Rogan thing.

He's getting all these big podcasts.

He is getting a lot of attention.

And I don't know if, you know, if people have looked at this super closely, but we all, people quote all the time that he gets 20% of the polls.

That was May 17th.

He got 20% of the polls.

He has not had 20% of the polls since.

Oh, really?

It's been

coming up on two months.

Yeah.

And there have been a dozen polls, none of which he has cracked 20%.

He's been between eight and 17 in those polls.

Joe Biden has led by,

you'll hear from some Trump supporters who are like, you know,

Trump is blowing DeSantis out and we shouldn't even have a primary, but they'll celebrate RFK.

RFK is much farther behind Joe Biden than Ron DeSantis is Donald Trump.

He's behind the latest poll, he was down by 58 points.

He was down by 59 and another, 47 and another, 47 and another.

So it's a nail biter on the Democrat side.

It is something to note, but it isn't.

We shouldn't overstate how close he is to winning this nomination.

All right.

Pattons due for Glenn more coming up.

It's going to be interesting to see if any of these Democrats gain any traction from here on because you're talking about people running in their own party against a sitting president, which just usually it's unacceptable to do that.

And you won't get any support from the party if you do that.

And you might be punished.

And they're not.

And they're not.

This is why someone's serious hasn't jumped in, right?

You will get that punishment.

And

like Gavin Newsom, who wants to run so badly.

Nobody wants to run.

Oh, man, does he want to run?

But he won't because he'll be punished by the Democrat Party if he does.

And that would hurt him in the future.

Yeah, he's thinking ahead and thinking he probably wouldn't win.

So he's just hoping against hope, I think, that Biden drops out.

Then he'd be in a second.

What he's done is he put together a relatively serious national operation that is positioned to help the Democratic nominee.

Now, if Joe Biden flames out, I don't know, one of these accusations comes true.

It's proven.

He goes down to, let's say, right now, I think Joe Biden, he has some of the worst approval ratings.

Only Carter was worse at this point in the presidency.

However, they're bad, but not bad, bad.

Trump's approval rating was about 42% going into 2020.

There's no question about it.

By the way, he's still 40.5.

It's 40.5.

It's lower.

But it's not catastrophically bad.

It's not the end of George W.

Bush's

single digits where it should be.

Yes.

George W.

Bush ended in the low 30s, high 20s.

And you get into that area, and there may very well be someone who needs to, quote unquote, step in.

And Gavin Newsom is building an operation in case that happens.

He is ready to go if they need somebody to step in last minute.

And he's building this under the auspices of like, oh, well, I'm taking in, you know, I want to, I want to reform the Second Amendment.

I want to, you know, I want to, I want to get rid of the Second Amendment.

I want to do all these things.

And he's running ads in Florida, but they're sort of like, well, I'm targeting Ron DeSantis and he's one of the Republican.

You know what I mean?

Like he's, he's, he's, he's acting as if he doesn't want to run.

Um, when

every one of his pieces of action is, is, is telling the opposite story, right?

Like, it's obvious he wants this, but he, I think, may have made this calculation.

Look, if I step into this primary right now, I probably lose and my, my future is destroyed because the party will make me lose, number one.

They will bend the rules to make sure I lose anyway.

And number two, honestly, even if he got into the race, who's to say that he would win?

I don't think that he's certainly, I mean, he'd be a worse president, I think, even than Joe Biden, which would be saying something.

Pretty bad, yeah.

It was really saying something.

He's a radical.

Oh, yeah.

Big-time radical.

And so, but it's been nice because you can be as radical as you want in California.

They elected you.

Go at it.

Have at it.

But not for the rest of us, please.

No.

No, thank you.

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Yeah.

I'm going to be popping in here in a minute.

Our old friend Dan Andros.

We'll talk to him.

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And we, in the meantime, are joined by our old friend, Dan Andros, who deserted us years ago.

How many years ago was it, Ben?

Was it like 14, 15, somewhere in there?

Seven glorious years.

Yeah, seven glorious years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Blaze alum, Dan Andrews, now over at Faithwire.com, CBN, and host of the Quick Start Podcast, which you can subscribe to wherever you get your podcasts.

That's a lot.

Why don't you leave a job for somebody else?

Right.

I mean,

that's too many.

Too many.

That's too many jobs.

Yeah, I'm questioning my choices now.

I should just have one job.

Are you Ryan Seacrest all of a sudden?

Yeah.

Leave something for someone else, Dan.

I'm just like him, except with $100 million less dollars.

I will say, if you're looking for a new job, if you are maybe thinking you need one more, might I recommend detective at the White House to find cocaine?

Because that seems to be a very difficult job.

That's the toughest job on the planet.

Who did this?

Who could know?

There's no way to tell.

There's no way.

It's like the metric system.

There's no way to measure it.

I don't know.

Is it like the metrics system?

It's a lot like that.

But guys, you're not understanding here.

They just don't have the resources there at the White House.

The President of the United States is...

I mean, who would have thought to put a camera in all the different buildings there in the White House?

I mean,

Especially because we know this cocaine was found in the area where there's just tours.

This is where people are walking through.

The average person can walk through there anytime during the day or night.

And well, actually, just a quick update.

It's actually in a highly trafficked part of the private residence, West Wing area, actually.

The West Wing, a highly trafficked.

People are going by there all the time.

Tours are going by there.

Actually, quick updates.

People drop stuff off in that cubby hole.

All the time.

All the time.

But quick update on that, Pat.

Sorry.

Actually, it was in the West Wing executive entrance.

And the framing by the news, actually, near where Kamala Harris parks her car.

They're throwing her down.

Joe Biden leaked that.

Oh, yeah.

It was by Kamala's car, guys.

But are you amazed, Dan, that, like, with all this other...

crimes that we are able to solve, how they cannot figure out where this cocaine came from?

Yeah, with all of the technology, I mean, I don't know, you think of the Larry David, what was that, the Kirby Enthusiasm episode?

They like ping the guy's cell tower.

They find him on tape at a random guy at like a baseball game and they get him off of that crowd.

Remember that story?

Yeah.

The Idaho murders, right?

Like the college kids.

Yeah.

This happened in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere.

No one saw anything.

The guy drives across the country into the Poconos where there's just a billion trees and nothing else, a couple cabins.

And they track him down in like a week.

But there's a giant bag that someone dropped, like, oops, like my big Ziploc bag of cocaine.

sorry guys can't figure that one out the mystery of the century if they'd only thought to put a camera somewhere somewhere just somewhere yeah they should have done that yeah they should like a nest cam i think you're right though pat i think that this government that this administration is just very cost conscious and so they're not like these nest cams are expensive cost like 50 bucks to install and a monthly service you've got to pay too who wants that yeah so you know so they're just being cost conscious but these are the it's the give and take you know like that you you leave yourself open to a little risk.

Protecting our tax dollars.

The Biden administration hard at work.

It is fascinating, though.

I think this is one of the most defining characteristics of this time, which is people have lost faith that the justice system will go after

people equally.

You see the Hunter Biden thing.

I know.

I know that if I had a laptop that I left at some place that showed me with like bunches of hookers and cocaine, there's no way I'd be walking free free today.

No.

There's no way, despite all the financial crimes and everything else on there, just the basics.

And no one seems to care.

And we're seeing this all the time where conservatives are prosecuted for things that you wouldn't, that the liberals aren't.

The DOJ is cracking down in ways that are amazing.

Well, I mean, look at Trump.

I mean, the guy has like, you know, he prints out one piece of paper and it's in one of his, you know, sheds or something.

And they're like just, you know, doing full raids on him.

You know, and then you have you have hunter biden who's broken like 500 federal laws

we can let him wander around in the white house and drop cocaine off it's absolutely no big deal but it is you're seeing a turn now i think with the doj like you know we we know there's been corruption in the government right this is this is nothing new but i feel like it's rising to new levels now and the willingness to use the doj to just do your political dirty work i mean we saw this with mark how this is a story that we covered over at cbn you know you know very closely and he's the pro-lifer who was, he's regularly out in front of these Planned Parenthoods protesting, you know, abortion.

And he gets in an altercation with a guy he knows that they're, you know, he's one of the Planned Parenthood escorts.

So they know each other.

This guy's harassed.

He doesn't like when the pro-lifers are around.

So he's giving them a hard time.

You can see it on tape.

He goes up to him.

He's saying something to Hauk's son, who's there, who's only 12, vile things.

So he shoves him and the guy falls down.

And so, of course, all the headlines,

he shoved an old guy, the the pro-life or well, it was a very minor scrape.

It got dismissed in local courts and it was done.

And that's how these cases would normally go.

In a normal justice system, okay, like, you know, there's a little bit of an altercation among people who don't like each other.

No one's really hurt.

No.

You know, local courts look at it.

The police drop the charges, whatever, it's over.

He didn't even, this guy didn't even show up to court.

That was one of the reasons it got thrown out.

He just is like, man, I couldn't be bothered to show up to court.

Then out of nowhere.

I heard his buttocks was bruised.

It wasn't from the fall.

Both cheeks.

Yes.

Yeah, it's tough.

It's tough.

Nobody falls.

That's such a rare occurrence.

It is.

But anyway, so the DOJ swoops in and out of nowhere and they charge him with a federal face act crime.

And now, after talking to his, the face act is, you know, blocking someone from a doctor or a patient from going into one of these clinics, right?

That's what a face.

This was not either one of those people,

just an escort.

And he wasn't blocking him at all.

The video evidence evidence clearly shows that.

It was happening on the corner of the street.

So why in the world would the DOJ

come down on this?

And from what I, when I talked to their lawyers, you know, for Hauk, they were saying that the feds will not take a case typically unless they have a 99% chance of winning.

Like they just don't do it.

They do not waste their time.

And he's like, this case has no, it's a terrible case.

They have absolutely no chance of winning this thing.

And it was dismissed in like no time at all.

And also, don't forget, aside from just the charges, they showed up at his house with like 30 federal agents fully armed.

Right.

Right.

And he had already told them in writing that he was willing to come in.

He said, Hey, I think you don't have a case here, but if you're going to charge me, we'll come in to save everyone the hassle.

And they ignored that.

And

they wanted to make an example out of him.

Because remember, this is before the election.

All this happened in September, right ahead of the elections.

So they wanted to make examples and put headlines of pro-lifers looking like these big criminals ahead of the election.

That's fascinating when you think about what is the chain of information that leads to that moment.

Why on earth would the DOJ even be aware of this stupid little tiny local incident at

an abortion clinic?

And we're seeing this over and over again.

You guys broke a story that probably many people are in the audience are somewhat aware of of a guy who's protesting an abortion.

Where was it?

This was a pride rally.

A pride rally.

And it was happening in Redding, Pennsylvania.

And this guy, he's a street preacher.

He's regularly out there, you know, preaching the gospel and things like that.

And so he finds out that there's this pride rally there in Reading, which is not, it's not an area that you're typically going to get like a pride rally.

It's not New York City.

Right.

So this is not a common occurrence there.

So there were a couple of Christians that showed up and they had signs.

Well, this guy shows up and joins like these two or three Christians that are there across the street.

Now, the officer within 60 seconds arrests him and charges him with criminal disorderly conduct.

All he did was walk up, and you can see it on tape.

There was another guy, you know, praise God, filming this so that it was on tape and you could see it.

And this cop is just, he's like, let them have their day.

And he's like, look, this is public property.

I can be here.

And he's like, yeah, you're right, but just let them have their day.

And he's like, all right, well, you do you.

I'll do me.

I'm going to say what I'm going to say.

He starts to quote a Bible verse.

It was 1 Corinthians, I think.

And

as soon as he starts in on the Bible verse, this cop turns around, makes a B line for for him and said, that's it.

I've had enough of you.

You're done.

Throws him up against the wall and arrests him.

And it was kind of funny in the comments because all the people are going, congratulations, brother.

You just won the lot of.

But it is.

It's this pattern of like they're pushing and authorities are pushing.

And we're having as Christians and conservatives to defend ourselves.

And, you know, he had to go.

And thankfully, they threw it out.

I think the prosecutors looked and like, oh, what did you guys do here?

You have a lawsuit.

But those lines are being tested constantly.

And so, you know, it's the onus is on us to say, like, no, no, we're actually within our rules to be able to say what we want to say.

It's crazy.

And we're at that point where we really are.

The last line of defense seems to be these courts that have held the line so far.

The Supreme Court did several times.

Yeah.

The

religion, there was a religious freedom, of course, with that 303 creative case where you talked about what are you forced to make websites for things you don't agree with.

And these lines are being pushed all the time by the left.

And what's scary is eventually they're going to get one of these through.

They're not going to fail forever in the courts.

If the only thing you have holding up

insanity

is a 5-4 vote or a 6-3 vote even in the Supreme Court, you do not have much of a basis.

for the foundation of your civilization.

Especially when you know the plan is to pack the court

and add, you know, four or five liberal justices.

Yeah.

And they're going to try to do that.

Yeah.

They have to.

Well, that's.

Because they can't stand the rulings that are happening right now.

They can't stand it and they will abandon it.

And that's a sad thing that we used to be able to, as Americans on the left and right, what, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, we could agree on the basic founding principles of the country.

They don't do that anymore.

They don't, they've they, that ship has sailed and they're going to keep pushing until they can pack the courts and just get their way.

Yep.

I know you're covering this on the Quick Start podcast as well as Faithwire.com and CBN.

Before you go, though, I want to, you live in Pennsylvania, and there's a story that happened there a few weeks ago that I am fascinated by.

Pat, I think you'll be fascinated by this as well.

I don't know how closely you followed it, but there was a big accident.

I don't remember exactly what happened.

A truck.

It was sad.

The guy died, but it was a trucker and he was going under an underpass.

He crashed somehow, but it was like a fuel truck or something.

So it like exploded and it was a massive fire.

And it actually

melted the overpass.

There's crazy videos of it starting to buckle and people were like

driving over it and it goes down.

So anyway, really scary.

Yeah.

Really scary.

And I remember after hearing about about this, the governor of the state comes on, like it could be months.

We could be talking three months of, and this is I-95.

If you don't know this area, like it's the highway, three lanes on each side, it's just before Philly, it's just a few minutes before Philadelphia.

Yeah, and it's a massive area.

Thousands and thousands of people crossing this all the time.

It would be a major disruption to get off this highway and have to drive through Philadelphia to get back on the highway is a massive thing for traffic.

And then all of a sudden,

like a few days days later, they're like, don't bridge back?

Yeah.

12 days.

Yeah.

12 days.

12 days.

I drove by this thing.

That's incredible.

Yeah.

I had to go down to Philly for something in the middle of this.

And they're like, oh, you got to do the detour.

And

I'm going down there and I drove by it.

It looked like, I mean, it was horrible.

Like it was rubble.

Like it was a disaster zone down there.

And I'm like, there's no way they're getting this thing.

Cause I was there on like the middle of the week.

Yeah.

And they're like, it's going to be open by the weekend.

I'm like, What?

There's nothing there.

What are you talking about?

No, I've seen construction projects, they take like 10 years.

All right, I would say,

Seriously, like, that's a great example of American ingenuity: people coming together in a tough time to get something done faster than normal.

Okay, fine.

Now, let's step back to the regular day stuff.

Why?

Why does every construction project take a zillion years

when this when they really need to be able to do that?

You've never been to Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

there are construction projects that were begun long before we got here in 2012.

They're still going on now.

And as there were in 2012, nobody's there except for the orange cones and barrels and all of that.

Nobody's there still.

And it's, I, I can't for the life of me understand what they're doing.

And they, they rallied everyone, right?

They knew they had to get this done.

And so you think, okay, they, they can do it.

So why does it get held up on all these other times?

And I think it's probably a couple of things.

One, they know the federal government doesn't really care about, I mean, how many of these projects ever land on budget?

Have you ever heard of one of these construction projects?

It'll be a billion.

Oh, really?

Like $50 billion later.

We were a little over.

Like no private company would ever stand for that.

But you can build the government on that.

The other thing is the unions.

So

when the governor comes in and just says, okay, you know what?

Unions, just stand down, guys.

You know, because they wouldn't allow work around the clock and all that.

It wouldn't happen.

This is the time they actually need it.

And when they need it, they can do it.

Yeah, it's fascinating to watch in action.

Dan Andros, faithwire.com, quick start podcast.

Make sure you subscribe to that as well as CBN News.

Dan, thanks for coming on.

All right.

Thanks, guys.

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