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Today's podcast,

we share some pretty frightening things, I think.

The

emergency climate

executive order that the Washington Post says is coming as early as this week, that is a game changer.

That, coupled with the fact that the Democrats now are officially pushing to add four Supreme Court justices, that that again is a game changer.

Those are end of Republic kind of things that

happen.

But we also talked a little bit about the border today.

We talked to a guy who was the doctor, the physician for Bush and Trump and Obama.

And Obama just cussed him out here recently in writing because as the official White House surgeon and the doctor that lived in the White House,

he said, Joe Biden has checked out.

I've been around him.

He is declining rapidly.

He really should not be in office.

Well, we talked to him about that.

We also

spent some time with Tommy Robinson.

You might know his name.

Tommy is an independent journalist that went to jail, went to prison in the UK because he spoke his mind and said, look,

the Muslim community community has rapists in it and they're raping these children and the police are doing nothing.

Well, he went to prison for saying that.

This week, they just came out and said, oh, yeah, you know what's happening to the children?

Muslim men are coming in here and they're raping them.

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I was in Utah for the 4th of July down in this beautiful, beautiful place, fastest growing city in America now, is St.

George.

And I'll tell you, there's a battle for the soul of St.

George.

It's a very, I think it is, you would know this better than I do, Pat.

Isn't it the

most conservative community in the country?

It's probably up there.

I don't know if it competes with Provo, but it's up there.

Yeah, but it's up there.

I mean, Provo is like.

So anyway, it's very, very, very, very red.

And it's always been that way.

But people are moving from California, and I think they're going to destroy it because it has the bones of just one of the greatest cities in America, you know,

an Aspen or Jackson Hole, kind of that vacation kind of place.

And it's just beautiful there, just beautiful, surrounded by national parks.

Anyway, I went down

because

I had been working with a group called United We Pledge

that

to build

Independence Hall, just like the one in Philadelphia, and

Washington's Mount Vernon.

and also Patrick Henry's church, where he said, give me liberty or give me death.

And they want to produce a curriculum and tell the truth through artifacts and everything else of America's founding.

And this is based on something that is in Alabama that was built years ago that I don't think anybody knows.

It's Liberty Village.

I mean, maybe you know if you live in Alabama, but it is this colonial village that is trying to keep America's history alive.

So when these people from Balance of Nature

found this,

the son calls the dad and is like, dad, Liberty Village, you have to see this.

We have to build one.

We should build them all over the country.

They're very, very patriotic people.

And

so they just broke ground on July 4th for this event.

So here's what the Tribune writes about this.

A replica colonial era village under construction in Washington County is aimed at stoking the fires of patriotism, increasing devotion to the U.S.

Constitution, and enshrining religion as the central focus of the American Revolution.

No, no,

religion just was, I shouldn't say religion, God

was a major focus.

Being on God's side is the reason why the the Purple Heart exists.

They were all pretty much god people that doesn't mean they went to the same churches or anything else but they all pretty much believed in the same thing and that is a judeo-christian god

so

they continue some however are concerned that united we pledge the st george based non-profit leading the effort to build liberty village in nearby hurricane leans too far right and takes too much liberty with American history.

Dignitaries from Hurricane and United We Pledge joined conservative media personality Glenn Beck and others on July 2nd to break ground for the village, which will be situated on about 40 acres adjacent from the proposed new Balanced Nature campus.

Nutritional Supplement Company in St.

George, Balanced Nature, is the chief sponsor of United We Pledge.

The groundbreaking served as an official start of the effort to raise roughly $50 million needed to build the site, which is being modeled after the American Village,

replica colonial village in Alabama.

When it opens, scheduled for sometime around America's 250th birthday on July 4th, 2026, Liberty Village plans to feature replicas of historic buildings.

Dennis Levitt, the president of United We Pledge, who is one of the best men I think I've ever met.

I mean, there's a handful of men that I have met that are true,

true servants of a higher power

and

men of absolute integrity.

This guy is amazing.

Someday I'll introduce you to him.

But Dennis Levitt, president of the United We Pledge, says the village will be an interactive experience that will enable visitors to learn about colonial crafts and to discuss King George III's taxation without representation and other issues with costume actors or interpreters portraying America's founding fathers.

In a time when many people feel patriotism is in decline and fewer Americans, especially youth, identify with a religion or attend church, Levitt says Liberty Village and United We Pledge a Company curriculum will

bolster citizens' knowledge about America, the Constitution, and the role of God

in the nation's creation.

He envisions the village bringing people together and instilling greater reverence for core constitutional values such as faith, family, and freedom.

But others don't share his vision.

It goes on and on and on

and

then talks to three historians that absolutely have distorted history, or they have done such little homework on what Liberty Village is and what things are that, like, I believe in.

I don't believe in a national religion by any stretch of the imagination.

I do believe, whether you believe in God or not, belief in a higher power that you are you have to answer to is a healthy thing.

And one of the reasons why we're having the problems that we have is because

we lack God.

We lack any set of principles that we all used to find self-evident.

So they're immediately attacking this because

it's the colonial period, slave owners,

you know, God, oh my gosh, this is going to be so ugly.

Most of Americans have never even heard of this project, but they felt it was necessary to tear it down after the first shovel hit the ground.

That's fine.

It's not going to stop.

Now let me give you the next story.

This one comes from Vice, and it's related.

Pastor Ron Tucker took to the stage one weekend in early July at Grace Church in the St.

Louis suburb of Maryland Heights to deliver a sermon on Romans.

In the first 15 minutes, Tucker railed against Antifa, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, feminism, gun laws, abortion, protesters disrupting Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh's dinner at DC Steakhouse, and promoted the baseless claim that the Capitol riot was a hoax.

Wow.

In 15 minutes, he did all of that.

Their woke ideology is separating people, he said, into groups and taking our nation apart.

What part of that is incorrect?

We're being taught, it's being taught in our schools under the heading of critical race theory, Tucker said.

The way to get promoted in a woke business is based on your degree of victimhood.

Absolutely true.

If you're a black lesbian, then you're at the top of the heap.

No, actually, I think that would go for a handicap

black lesbian.

Anyway, he goes on, I mean, would you trust somebody to fly your plane just because they're part of a minority?

Another great point.

Tucker founded Grace Church, a non-denominational congregation in 1978.

These days, however, it's not unusual for him to use his time in the pulpit to unleash a torrent of right-wing grievances and stoke fears of an imminent Marxist takeover.

Yeah, I think it's pretty imminent.

But according to some, his congregants, it is a stark departure from his old preaching style.

It's honestly weird because it never used to be like that, said Emily Lynch, 33, who joined Grace Church when she was five years old.

I can remember the sermons growing up.

They never spoke about politics.

It was a quote-unquote feel-good church.

Oh.

so it was doing its job then as a church, making everybody feel good.

Noelle Fortman, 23, and her mother had a similar early experience with Grace Church, which they joined in 2010.

It was just such a pleasant community.

It was welcoming and diverse, you know, and the sermons were just uplifting and, you know,

biblical.

End quote.

Now, instead of talking about a compassion and loving your neighbor, Tucker is preparing his 1,500-strong flock for a bloody final battle where the bullets are real.

Wow.

He said, quote, this is not cruise ship Christianity right now.

We're a battle group.

Oh boy.

Not a...

Not a cruise ship

Christianity?

Well, that's the one I want.

I want one where I can just sit on the deck and just look out over the ocean and think that everything is great.

It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Tucker's radicalization began, but Fortman said she first started noticing

politics creeping into his sermons about the time.

Fill in the blank, Pat.

About what time did he start to become radicalized?

Who's really responsible for this?

Could it have been during the Trump presidency?

presidency?

I mean,

that would surprise me.

Yes, Donald Trump.

Shocked.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Initially, she said it was easy to shrug it off.

Tucker was a trusted pastor who had been a consistent voice in her life for years.

Plus, she and her mom weren't that involved in the church community itself.

They came for the Bible stories and the concert quality music performances.

Oh, she's great.

He started his sermons with this rambling 30 to 40 minute rant that sounded like it was taken straight from like Fox News.

One time we went there and he referred to COVID vaccine as the mark of the beast.

Could be.

That we needed to fight again, that we needed to fight against.

And I was like, yo, this is crazy.

End quote.

Another time, she saw a black family get up and leave halfway through one of Tucker's rants on political race theory.

And she began noticing a lot of churchgoers doing the same.

At the same time, she began seeing new faces, older faces, and whiter than before.

Fortman and her mother both left the church that year.

Yeah.

I see.

The way they got up and left.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

And they're alive.

In your dreams.

In one recent sermon.

No.

In one recent sermon,

Tucker acknowledged that he may have offended some members of the congregation.

I've read your emails.

I've watched people walk out of churches.

I've gone into this stuff.

But we're at a critical moment, he said.

And

he said, and he's concerned about the church being taken over by a government agency called the Ministry of Truth.

Yeah, that'll never happen.

That would never happen, happen, right?

We'd never.

Oh, wait a minute.

She then, the story goes on to say, this story is not unique to Grace Church.

Politics and culture wars have crept into pulpits and pews across the U.S.

in recent years.

I know, in the black churches, they've never done anything like this.

It's not just the evangelical church whose ties to the GOP have been a target of heavy scrutiny for decades.

It's churches and parishes across denominations, state lines, and socioeconomic status.

Christians from around the country who spoke to Vice News said they've witnessed their congregations lose focus and slide into Christian nationalism.

And here's my favorite part of the story: the laugh paragraph: If you have information or tips about churches or pastors who have become radicalized by Christian nationalism, we need to hear from you.

Contact Tess Owen.

Wow,

that is fantastic from Vice.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program, and we really want to thank you for listening.

On direct orders from President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security has released 79,652 migrants into the United States last month after they were detained for illegally crossing the southern border.

This brings the total number of illegals that have been caught and released into the United States on Biden's watch to 1.335

million people.

At this pace,

the ones that we catch and release, not the ones that we didn't catch, the ones that we caught and released,

he will put in 3.5 million illegal immigrants immigrants into the United States in his first term.

That is a population larger than that of Chicago.

Okay.

All right.

Now,

we also have this coming.

Food insecurity.

Food security crisis is on the horizon, and experts now are saying that it could kill more people than COVID did worldwide.

I hope we're not going to feel it too horribly here, but if we have open borders, we will, because they will come in droves because they will not have food

in South America.

And we should do everything we can.

I mean, again, if I were president today, I would make it very, very clear.

I'm cutting the red tape on all energy.

I'm cutting all the red tape on farming.

And, you know, we'll come back to normal.

But right now,

we need people to farm and to drill and get energy out of the ground do you know what we could do for the rest of the world in good

not by not being involved in war and everything else just by saying farmers here's the mission our moonshot is to feed the world in the next 12 to 18 months.

So gear up.

What do you need?

We have a moonshot.

We need to get oil to the rest of the world because Russia is going to cut off the oil and the gas.

They're talking now already about rationing gasoline and fuel in Germany.

This is going to cripple Europe and we will go into war if this actually happens.

And are we stable?

We could be so stable right now financially if we were doing the right things to help people in the world.

Meanwhile, we're just pissing everybody off and China's holdings of U.S.

debt have fallen below $1 trillion.

That's the first time in 12 years.

They're liquidating.

all of our bonds.

They are not holding our debt.

That leaves Japan, which is on the verge of oblivion.

That leaves Japan as the largest holder now of our U.S.

treasuries.

Soon it will just be the Fed.

FBI and DHS also have confirmed, and again, are we getting stronger or weaker?

FBI and Department of Homeland Security are purchasing and using Chinese-made drones from a company with close links to the Chinese government.

So you know, everything is linked to the Chinese government.

You own a business, you have a party member there that is making sure that everything you do helps China.

We have been warning

that we cannot use Chinese technology because Chinese technology is gathering information and especially from the DHS and the FBI.

Why would you want to use drones that would send information to China?

This is craziness.

The only reason you do that is because you're making money or you're beholden to the Chinese government.

Also, Shut Down DC,

another Marxist group, Shut Down DC just announced that they are going to disrupt the congressional baseball game.

That's smart.

That's smart.

I can't imagine anything going wrong there, getting a bunch of liberals to

show up at the baseball diamond.

Oh my gosh, I just realized that's a really bad idea.

Didn't they try to kill all of the members, the Republican members of Congress at that same baseball diamond?

Oh, yeah, but that was so long ago.

I forgot.

We should remind them.

Who even remembers it?

No, buddy.

And they deserved it anyway.

Meanwhile,

on the crisis list, BlackRock, its profits have fallen 22%.

BlackRock is

not making the money that they were hoping that they would make on this new Green Deal.

And speaking of the Green Deal,

Congress,

or I'm sorry, Biden, according to the Washington Post today,

could declare a climate emergency as soon as this week.

The potential move comes days after Joe Manchin told Democratic leaders he does not support his party's efforts to advance a sprawling economic package this month that includes billions of dollars to address global warming.

If emergency is invoked, it could empower the Biden administration in its efforts to reduce carbon emissions and to foster a cleaner energy.

Two of the individuals with knowledge of the discussions say that they also expect the President to announce a slew of additional actions aimed at curbing planet warming emissions.

The exact scope and timing of any announcement remain in flux.

The president made it clear if the Senate doesn't act to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he

will.

So

that's really good.

Jared Bernstein, top White House economic advisor, emphasized to reporters at a news briefing earlier in the day that Biden would work aggressively to fight to attack climate change.

So we got that going for us.

We now have the last piece that is needed to take over a country.

You just need an emergency that could happen as soon as this week.

Meanwhile, House Democrats are pushing a bill to add four seats to the Supreme Court.

Unbelievable.

Now that.

By the way,

it's over.

You couple the Supreme Court with what would have to be also a filibuster reform,

but you pack the court, you get rid of the filibuster, and you declare in a national emergency, you do not return from that.

You don't.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's that's accurate.

It's frightening, but it's definitely accurate.

And this would accomplish his goal of finishing the fundamental transformation of America that Obama started.

And that's what he plans to do, I think.

Imagine

America being lost.

I mean, I think we're going to really see, the world will feel

America's loss, I think in the next 24 months.

I think

when we start to go into global food crisis, there are not going to be bags of wheat from the United States that are coming in.

There's not going to be all that food that we've shipped that usually rots on

the tarmac because, you know, it's all corrupt.

And I think we're going to see

the rest of the world feel the absence of the United States in our charitable giving.

It's

terrifying.

Terrifying.

Well, by far, by far, for as long as I think any kind of records have been kept, the United States of America, American citizens have been the most generous on the face of the planet.

To the tune of, you know, we think that our government gives a lot in foreign aid.

Private individuals and corporations give over $300 billion a year

to the rest of the planet.

So, I mean, that's something that, you know, if we have a catastrophe,

then

those people in poverty, in abject poverty, they're going to be left to fend for themselves.

It's going to be a disaster if it happens.

I think this is going to be remembered as Mao's five-year plan when he starved millions of people to death because he knew a better way to farm.

And he didn't.

He knew nothing about farming.

But he claimed that he was inspired and

he could fix farming for China.

And

the first year, I don't remember what it was, like 2 million people died.

And he said, just keep going.

Then the next year, like 10 million people died.

In the end, I think it was 30 million that died in his five-year plan.

And he didn't care.

He just didn't care because it's good for everybody else.

This is so Malthusian.

The Malthusians believe that

we got to get rid of humans.

There's just too many humans.

And any way to liquidate humans is good.

Now, think of that when you talk about climate change.

How many people do you hear or when they talk about the planet talk about how it's too crowded, we have too many people, you know,

I don't think we need to bring any more people into the world?

Look at the Malthusian kind of attitude of the complete live system, that once you're over really 50, but definitely 60, you get very little medical care because there's there's no purpose for you to live anymore.

You're not serving society.

It's a frightening thing when you look at the same kind of progressive thought that brought you planned parenthood and the murder of millions of babies.

The same group of people, the American progressives, that taught Germans about eugenics and

all of the nasty stuff of race purity.

A lot of that came from us and our progressive movement here in the United States.

That kind of stuff is still going on in

just different ways, but it's still going on.

You wipe out a whole bunch of people using

starvation because of a war.

We couldn't do anything about it when it's absolutely a lie.

When we are just going to have to take it, you know, take those blows to the face because we got to get off of green energy.

If people are suffering or die,

they don't care.

It actually helps their plan.

Well, you remember what Bernard Shaw said, one of the most

famous playwrights in world history, and that's how he felt.

about people.

Whatever.

If you can't produce as many potatoes as you consume, well, we're just going to have to kill you.

I mean, not in a mean way.

Well, you know, we'll make sure that your death is fairly painless, but you d you have to be killed.

Well, he was the.

Yeah, and he was the guy who said there's got to be a way to have some sort of a gas or gas chamber where you could kill people quickly and efficiently.

I mean, it's George frickin' Bernard Shaw that was the first to express gas chambers for the liquidation of people.

Incardabane.

Jeez.

Wake up.

We are headed in the same kind of direction with the same crazy, dangerous people.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

You know, it really makes me sick that USAID, when we send aid over, We demand that they start with birth control and start providing providing abortions.

Did you know that?

Our funding,

in our name, they take our money.

Federal government doesn't make money.

It takes money.

And they take our money and they say, we're going to help out Ukraine.

Oh, yeah, we're going to help out.

We love to help them out.

And

what strings come attached?

Well, I tell you, with Ukraine, now in the middle of a war,

their parliament decided to get together because

they really want to make sure that gay marriage is

legal.

That's your priority during a war where people are dying in the streets?

You're taking that on?

Gee, I wonder why, Pat.

Why do you think that might happen?

I'm sure it's not because the United States said, this is a condition upon which we give you the aid.

I'm sure that didn't happen.

No, no, no.

We've never controlled

another sovereign nation like that.

Of course not.

Of course not.

Of course not.

And

it's all about compassion.

Let me ask you,

when you have 60% of the girls that come, girls and women that come across our border because of the drug cartels or with human smugglers, we are enriching those cartels and smugglers.

And 60% of the women and the girls that come across the border are raped by those same people.

Where is your compassion?

Where is your compassion?

Yeah, and you keep saying that, you know, they

go ahead.

Not only are they getting raped,

but since Biden took office, 700 illegals trying to cross the border have died.

You know, they make a big deal out of, and it is, they make a big deal out of the 50 who died all at one time in the back of that trailer a few months ago.

But that's

just a drop in the bucket compared to what happens all the time on the border.

People crossing the border in the summertime and dehydrating and dying in the desert.

People dying in the backs of these

trucks, in the trunks of cars.

It happens all the time.

And 700 of them just in the last year and a half since Biden Biden took office.

It's unconscionable.

And they don't care.

So the only reason you would be doing this, it has nothing to do with compassion because you just wouldn't treat people like this.

You know, compassion is

not chaos.

And

all they're offering is chaos.

And who's coming over?

I want people that want to be Americans.

I do.

Yeah.

But I don't want any terrorists.

We've lost 40, 40 people that are on the terrorist watch list that we know of

that have crossed our southern border since Joe Biden has been into office.

George Washington said this.

He said, the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome, okay, there's more to this, to a participation in all our rights and privileges if

by decency and propriety of conduct, they appear to merit that enjoyment.

We don't care.

I mean, the media and the police appear to be covering up the rape of that 10-year-old that Joe Biden said she had to go to another state.

Can you imagine being that little girl?

No, I can't.

So why was the rapist allowed to stay at home with that girl after it had been reported to the police?

Echoing the statement, Thomas Jefferson said, born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.

No.

So there are founders saying, we want you in.

It's exactly the same thing that conservatives say.

We want you to come here.

We want you to be, you will renew us.

We need new blood.

We welcome you here if you will do it with our established rules.

Many years later, Ronald Reagan said, anyone from any corner of the world can come and live in the United States and become an American.

That's the standard.

We welcome the tired, the poor, the huddled masses.

If they will conform to our established rules, if they are decent, we open our arms to anyone who truly wants to become an American.

For generations, our ancestors have immigrated here.

chasing after what only America promised, and that is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, A chance to succeed.

This is why immigrants have left their homes, their histories, their families.

This is why so many risk everything.

They risk their lives to get here.

And then, when they arrive, they became steadfast Americans.

At least they used to.

In return for their risk and their efforts, We promised them America, a nation with such a finely crafted balance of power that you were protected from most of the threats to your liberty, at least from government, and most of the time from your fellow man.

In America, we guaranteed everyone's inalienable rights in exchange for a commitment to our principles that make us one.

and make America possible.

We said, come to America and you will be free.

We're not going to promise you gold.

We're not going to promise you riches.

But we're going to promise that you have a shot, you have a chance.

This was our promise.

And to honor that promise, we vowed to expect nothing less of future immigrants.

Immigration laws in America

have undergone

many changes, each packed controversy, complexity, good ideas, bad ideas.

Our first naturalization law

only welcomed free white persons.

And since then, as is the story of America, we've worked to infuse our best principles into immigration policies.

One good idea that we've had from the beginning was that our new citizen should be people of good moral character.

There are a lot of really good families, I'm sure, that are coming across the border, but there are also some nefarious ones.

But that one requirement honors the promise of America and the cost so many families pay to immigrate here.

It ensures that life in America will remain better, safer, and freer than the nation you just came from.

But they're escaping now to this

place that they think has it all.

They have no idea we are turning into the country that they just left.

And

God help us, we might might turn into a darker place than where they left.

In March, in March,

multiple members of Congress wrote

to the DHS Secretary.

That according to Customs and Border Patrol, they had arrested 2,424 criminal aliens so far in fiscal year 2022.

By March,

they were only 14 shy of the total number of arrests in fiscal year 2020.

14 shy.

The criminals,

14 shy of the total arrests from the year 2020.

These aren't numbers.

These are people's lives.

We have enough criminals in our own citizen.

our own makeup here who are threatening good people's inalienable rights.

Why in the world would we we add more criminals?

What compassionate nation would do that?

The rape that is happening in the immigrant community

is unheard of.

37-year-old man from Guatemala arrested for allegedly raping a preteen girl on multiple occasions while living here illegally in New Jersey.

Another man, Tennessee,

accused of

sexually molesting a child, and then he was deported.

And he just came right back in.

And he was arrested a second time for raping an underage girl.

So he molested a child.

Instead of put in jail, he is sent back because we have no border security.

He came back and raped an underage girl.

Didn't happen.

Didn't have to happen.

Oh, if we could just save one child.

How about saving many children?

I mean, do we have any standards?

I mean, someone who robs children of their innocence?

Doesn't that fall below the line, shouldn't it?

We are destroying ourselves.

And

it doesn't have to be this way.

We just have to stop talking politics and start talking common sense and values.

When we can unite on a few values, we will be able to fix our country.

But right now everything is so political and it was designed this way to keep us at each other's throats.

I know a lot of Democrats who are very, very compassionate, very compassionate.

And I know some politicians on both sides of the aisle who could give a rat's ass about what happens to anybody.

We need to start talking about empathy and compassion with one another because our children are at stake on so many levels.

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Pat, do you want to talk about Muriel?

You want to talk about Muriel here?

You can bring her up.

We have about three minutes.

We played this.

Yes.

We played this yesterday, Glenn.

I think, but it's, I keep thinking about this, especially as you've just been talking about the border situation.

The situation with D.C.

mayor Muriel Bowser, who's gotten just a teeny, tiny little taste of what the border states are dealing with because of Greg Abbott's initiative to send a lot of the illegals on a bus to D.C.,

they're apparently not appreciating it very much.

Here's what she just said about it.

Washington Post reported last week that homeless shelters in D.C.

were filling up and groups were getting overwhelmed by these buses that the governors of Texas and Arizona are sending here full of migrants.

How significant is this influx?

How many people?

Well, this is a very significant issue.

We have for sure called on the federal government to work across state lines to prevent people from really being tricked into getting on buses.

We think they're largely asylum seekers who are going to final destinations that are not Washington, D.C.

I worked with the White House to make sure that FEMA provided a grant to a local organization that is providing services to folks.

But I fear that they're being tricked into nationwide bus trips when their final destinations are places all over the United States of America.

The worst.

I mean.

So, you know, what's amazing to me is

that

she's talking compassionately about how can our city survive?

We can't even do.

You're Washington, D.C.

You're Washington, D.C.

You don't even know the names of these border towns, and they've got nothing,

nothing.

Right, exactly.

And listen to her whining about this already.

It's only been going on for a couple months.

They could only have a few hundred people there.

And she's already gone whining to the federal government to make it stop.

She wants them to stop coming to her town because she realizes how difficult a problem this is.

You know, for Texas and Arizona and New Mexico, who have been dealing with this forever,

Now you get just a tiny little taste of it for a few weeks and you just can't take it.

You go running to the federal government.

Wow.

Wow.

It's unconscionable what's going on.

And they're still using the 11 million figure, by the way.

They've been using that number since I moved to Houston 21 years ago.

There's still only 11 million illegals?

Huh.

With a million, or 2 million or 3 million coming across the border every year?

Huh.

Weird.

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