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All right, Pat Gray joins us now.

Pat Gray from his Pit of Hate.

His podcast is labeled Pat's Pit of Hate.

I don't think it is called Pat.

No, hi, Glenn.

No, I don't

think so.

I think it's Pat Gray Unleashed.

But I guess it could be subtitled The Pit of Hate.

The Pit of Hate.

Yeah.

Because

it really is.

I hate what's going on right now.

I will say that.

I hate what's going on.

I can't understand what's going on, and I can't believe what's going on.

If you would have told me,

if you would have told me last year that Black Lives Matter would have a 68% approval rating in the United States of America,

this Marxist organization, I would have said, oh, come on.

That's stupid.

No.

Come on now.

Yeah.

I've stopped saying that those things can't happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I've just stopped because everything.

Do you realize I went through some old archives yesterday?

I think all of the Fox predictions, almost all of the Fox predictions, have come true now.

I mean, have you seen the latest on the dollar?

I said one of the things they mocked me for is that we were going to have a huge crash, that the Fed would start buying our debt.

They'd never do that.

Well, they're doing it now.

They would just print money uncontrollably.

They'd never do that.

They're doing it.

That we would be downgraded in our credit rate.

They'd never, and they did that.

And the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency would be our undoing.

Have you seen the latest news in the financial papers?

They're all saying the end of the dollar as

the reserve currency.

When that happens, we are done.

We are done.

We're Mexico.

We're Mexico.

Yeah.

Congratulations.

When you've budgeted, what, $10 trillion so far this year?

start to realize that.

This year, $10 trillion.

$10 trillion.

And they're starting to realize, gosh, they're printing up a lot of money here.

That's a lot.

I'm not going to be able to do that.

There's a lot of U.S.

dollars floating around.

I wonder if that will work.

I wonder.

So

Trump just announced that he's going to sign an executive order to make the cities guard their monuments.

Is it just me or

why is this so late?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Am I the only one that feels that way?

No, it's all late.

I mean, they're just now saying.

Well, you know what?

We should maybe take back part of Seattle that is called Chas now.

Maybe we should take that back.

Why is that so late?

Everything we're doing is ridiculously late.

Ridiculously.

Why are we only now worried about the U.S.

dollar that we just talked about?

Why are we only now worried about the monuments and cities being taken over by Marxists?

Why?

No,

I don't think Congress is.

Where are the Republicans on this?

I saw Mike Lee talk about it.

I saw

Cotton talk about it.

Who else?

Where are the worthless, spineless Republicans standing up and saying enough is enough?

Yeah, I have.

You know why they're not standing up?

I think they're afraid.

They're afraid

of

the left.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They're afraid of the left.

Stu, you want to chime in on this, or are you just staying so you can keep your job after the

I mean, it sounds actually like a great idea now that you mentioned it.

No, I mean,

I think it is probably fear.

It seems to go in these little waves, right?

Like there's a wave after a big event like this.

I keep coming back to the same thing that keeps rattling around in my mind as the David Hogg gun thing, where for, I don't know, a month or two, it seemed like anyone who even referenced a gun would be canceled.

And

all these states were passing all these bizarre resolutions and trying to restrict gun ownership.

And then there's this wave, and then this kind of emotion went by, and then it went back to, I mean, I want to say normal in quotes, right?

Where it wasn't exactly normal, but it felt like it went back to normal for a little while.

And this is, it's been become just a bizarre cliche from Rahm Emanuel back in the day, but it's this, it's this crisis.

It's like, never let this crisis go to waste.

Here is an example of that happening again, where the George Floyd thing has allowed people to objectively

deny reality for a period of time.

where we can all sit back and say, the thing, you know, sure, we can look at these stats and it'll prove the exact opposite of what we're saying, but but right now we have to do something.

And it's been the effort that they've tried to do with climate over the years to create that constant feeling of stress and crisis so you can pass all these things.

But these are much more effective things.

They use George Floyd.

They ignore the poor three-year-old kid that was murdered in Chicago.

It's just not.

Oh, nobody cares about that.

Nobody cares.

Except for the family who cares about that.

Why doesn't anyone care about our kid?

Our three-year-old, who was an innocent

bystander in a shooting, had

no reason, no belief,

nothing they'd ever done wrong in their entire lives.

And they're dead, and no one cares.

Was she shot by a white cop?

No.

Oh, yeah, then we don't care.

Seriously, 104 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago.

104.

14 of them died.

In New York, in New York, shootings are up 400%.

Yeah.

400%.

And an important part of that.

Why do you suppose that is?

Because we bring up this criticism often, right?

Where it's, you know, Chicago or whatever city is in the middle of a violent outbreak and it's like, well, why doesn't anybody care about this?

And it's not a criticism of those communities, right?

It's not a criticism of Chicago.

Watch these parents as they're talking about their three-year-old being dead.

They very much do care.

It's a criticism of Black Lives Matter.

Black Lives Matter in the media, right?

Where are they?

Black Lives Matter and media.

They don't actually care about this problem.

The communities do.

They want it solved.

The mom and the dad who are sitting there in their house who've lost their child for no reason whatsoever, they freaking care about it.

It's just that Chris telling them they care about it.

Yep.

Yeah,

there is, for the very first time in my life, a very clear and distinct line between the elites and the average American.

Right now, I think the average American is like, what the hell is going on?

Where is everybody?

What happened?

And it is the elites.

This is not a

a revolution of the streets this is the elites and I mean I mean the the Democrats the banks

the Bilderbergers the Waterburgers the you know it is it's not a conspiracy in fact I'm gonna show you next hour something that just happened out in the open and nobody paid attention to it these are the world leaders all getting together and saying we're gonna We're going to change the whole system.

We're going to change the whole system.

I know, I know, the people don't want it, but we're going to shove it down their throat.

And the way they're going to do it is to have us rise up.

They are just leaving us to fend for ourselves.

And what do you expect people to do?

If they start coming into our churches and tearing down our statues in our churches, they've already told us that we can't go to church.

They've already said that.

You can go and protest, but you can't go to church.

I mean, what more is it going to take?

And no one seems to go to jail for it.

No one seems to be investigating.

When I show you tomorrow night what we found on Black Lives Let Matter, how they're getting their money, because this is enormously well funded.

There's no way this has a global arm without having millions and millions of dollars.

Who's doing it?

Well, I got news for you.

It isn't black people.

It's a bunch of white elitists, white supremacists.

They have,

these guys,

these

white Marxists have been using black people, and no one is saying anything about it.

No one is saying, You guys, you're being used.

Now, a lot of these blacks are Marxists that are actually in BLM, but not the people on the streets, not the people who are actually concerned about their neighborhood.

And they're all being used by these elites.

And it's, I'm, I'm watching a country in revolution right now.

I'm watching a coup happen.

There's no other way to describe this.

This is a coup.

It's happening and no one seems to care in the media.

No one is ringing the alarm bell.

Everyone's making excuses for it.

And

we're sitting around.

And what are we doing?

I asked for this yesterday.

And

I want to be really careful when I say anything because you know, my audience knows that I have always preached nonviolence.

This will be the end of the republic if the right becomes violent.

It will be the end of the republic.

I guarantee you.

It's what they want.

They couldn't get us to do that in the Tea Party.

So now what do they do?

They have to just let the monsters loose on our street and take everything that we hold sacred.

They've taken our jobs.

They've taken our rights.

They've taken our religion.

And what have we done?

Nothing.

They're changing the conversation.

They're taking our tradition.

They're changing our history.

We're moving into a different place.

What is that?

I'm sorry.

Who said that?

Well, direct quote from Michelle Obama.

Yeah.

So

they're doing these things, and we're not doing anything.

And I ask you to stand, but I ask you.

I remember having so many conversations in Birmingham.

Glenn, why are you having people sign the Martin Luther King Pledge of Nonviolence?

Because I wanted to put it in your head over and over and over again.

I knew I was early, but I knew there would come a time when we would have to really take that pledge and know that we had to walk like Christ.

And if we didn't, we'd be doomed.

Well, that is this time.

And where are those people that are willing to stand up and walk like Christ?

Where are the people that are willing to stand

and

encircle encircle some of these statues,

where are you?

You're going to get beaten in the head.

But I have to tell you, I know Navy SEALs that have gotten beaten in the head over and over again.

They fight back.

But are you willing to take a beating to the head and not fight back to save the Republic?

Because that's what it's going to take.

Martin Luther King was right when you put good versus evil side by side.

If you have a bunch of people that are surrounding a statue and they're all church-going, loving people and they don't want any problems and they're holding hands and they take the beating, it ends this.

It ends this.

You send in the military and it explodes.

You send in somebody who wants to be violent and it explodes.

You send in

God-fearing, God-loving,

Christ-like people, and you save the Republic.

Is anyone willing to stand in their own community as a group,

sing songs, and take a beating to the head to save our history and our republic?

That's a tough call,

but they only get more tough from here.

Thanks, Pat.

I'm not willing to sing, but I'll do the rest of it.

I'll leave the singing to someone else.

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Justin Haskins is the editorial director of the Heartland Institute.

He's with us now.

He's also the co-author of my book, Arguing with Socialists, which, Justin, when we were writing that,

Would you have ever thought that we would be here today

with what's going on?

I mean, I think we're in a revolution right now.

Yeah, we're absolutely in the early stages of a socialist revolution.

And when we were writing that book, I thought, you know, some of these things,

some of the predictions we're making, this is going to happen for sure.

But I thought maybe a few years, you know, not

a lot.

I thought 2024, maybe.

Yeah.

My gosh, we are here.

And it is.

It is terrifying what's going on.

You know, I read a great story

or a great editorial opinion in Town Hall last night, and it was about how this is actually not a revolution from the streets.

This is a revolution from the elites, the elites who have always despised the free man, who have always despised the

little people in the country.

And they're really the ones behind this.

And

then you come to the table today with the great reset, which I have not heard about anywhere.

And this is terrifying.

Explain what the great reset is.

Yeah,

this is the most important story in the world right now.

I truly believe that.

Everything that you're seeing that's going on, all of the chaos in the streets, people tearing down statues, demanding all kinds of Marxist new programs, the infinite printing of money, all of this is leading toward the Great Reset.

So I think the best way to understand this, especially for your audience, Glenn, is that they think of the Green New Deal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, their Green New Deal.

And if the Green New Deal and Agenda 21 were to get together, you know, and make passionate socialist love to each other, the result would be the great reset.

That's what this is.

So earlier in June, a bunch of the most powerful people in the world, the UN Secretary General, for example, Prince Charles, the head of the International Monetary Fund, a bunch of CEOs and presidents of major corporations like Microsoft, MasterCard BP, they all get together with the World Economic Forum and they have this event where they roll out this idea for a great reset of the global economy.

They say, you know, this whole capitalism thing, it isn't working out.

We need to completely scrap that and use the current pandemic as an excuse and a justification for building a completely new economy.

They're openly calling for this, and this is where reset comes from in great reset.

We're going to push the reset button on the entire economy.

And that's exactly what they're planning on doing.

And they haven't laid out the details of it.

The details of the plan are going to be laid out at another meeting in January 2021 in Davos.

And they're going to get together and

they're planning on getting together and working with this group, this national or international network of student activists to put together this big far-reaching plan to completely reset the global economy and

then roll it out in 2021.

And their justification for it, because you're probably thinking, well, COVID-19, I mean, that may not even be an issue in January.

Well, the justification is the next great crisis, the next great crisis to end all crises, climate change.

That's going to be the focus of this meeting in 2021 and the justification that's used for completely wiping out the global capitalist economy and replacing it with effectively some kind of crony socialist system.

Now,

Justin, how can people go to a credible source, preferably them,

and verify all of this?

Because this sounds like a conspiracy theory.

Now, there's a difference between a conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact.

So

how do you verify this if you're the average person?

So you're not going to somebody's reporting on it.

You're actually seeing what happened.

Yeah, absolutely.

That's a great point.

I mean, I understand it sounds like a conspiracy theory.

I get that.

But the reason it sounds like a conspiracy is because it is a massive conspiracy.

That's what it is.

The way that you can verify this and go straight to the source is go to stoppingsocialism.com.

We've got a bunch of articles about it.

And in those articles, we link directly to the speeches that were given at this World Economic Forum event, articles that have been written by a variety of people about the Great Reset.

And you can see in their own words, direct quotes, either on our website or you can go directly to the World Economic Forum website itself and find all of this information.

And this is not me reinterpreting their words for them.

They are openly saying that we need to complete

reset capitalism.

This is the head of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab.

He said, the world must

act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions.

Every country, from the United States to China, must participate.

Every industry, from oil to gas to tech, must be transformed.

In short, we need a great reset of capitalism.

End quote.

Wow.

Yeah, it speaks for itself.

It speaks for itself.

These people are,

we're living in a time that is so chaotic and so crazy that I believe the powers that be, the most powerful people in the world who have been wanting this move to the left for a very long time, are seeing an opportunity to openly present this as an as an option that they think people will take voluntarily.

And that's what we're seeing here.

We're seeing them presenting it, showing their cards, really for the first time in this kind of way, and openly calling for a total global transformation of the world economy.

Their goal, I'm going to use their language, their goal is to use climate chaos created by the pandemic

and the alleged dangers of climate change to, and I'm quoting here, reset the world's capitalist economy to make it more equitable, fair, and to rebalance economies.

Justin, I said probably in 2000

six or seven,

that the globe

that I realized that the only way to rebalance economies is to bring the United States down.

You can't bring the world up to the level of the United States.

And so you needed to crash the dollar and to crash our economy to be able then to keep us low, and that way everyone would be balanced out.

Is that what's happening now?

I think so.

I think so.

I really do believe that the key to understanding all of this is modern monetary theory.

Essentially,

the infinite or near-infinite printing of money by central banks to pay for any number of programs that they want to create.

In order to get the world to that point where they're willing to accept printing trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars as normal, you have to have the global global economy crash in a spectacular way like we've seen with COVID-19.

That's the only way you could have modern monetary theories for something like that to happen, a world war, or something like that.

And that is exactly what has occurred.

And that's how you're going to get socialism in the 21st century.

This is what 21st century socialism looks like.

You see, you don't have to confiscate people's property, you don't have to throw people in gulags.

All you have to do is control all the printing of the money and then decide who the winners and losers are.

And then you create this disgusting, crony socialist system.

And that is exactly what's going on here.

That's what the Great Reset is all about.

That's what climate change is all about.

And that's why so many of these major companies are signing up for the Great Reset.

Why would MasterCard and Microsoft and companies like this want the Great Reset?

Why would they want that?

Well, because there's going to be something in it for them.

And that's what's happening here.

It's world government institutions mixing with socialists and activists and major crony corporations to create an entirely new society.

That is a phenomenal statement.

That if

you would have said it four months ago,

you would say that's I mean,

there's just a group of crazy crazy people.

But you see now, this is everywhere.

And you see how these corporations are all lining up.

I was talking to my family the other day

back in,

I don't remember when, but George Soros, his number one guy, came to meet with my number one guy at one point.

And he said,

What your boss is doing is hurting Mr.

Soros, and it's got to stop.

And they say, Well, he's not going to.

I don't even have to talk to him.

He's not going to.

If we get something wrong about Mr.

Soros, we're glad to,

you know,

apologize and point out our error, but we don't think we're wrong on anything about Mr.

Soros.

You don't understand.

The end of the conversation was, you don't understand.

The ship has sailed, and you're either on it or you're not.

And my guy said, I don't think my boss, Mr.

Beck, is going to want to be on that ship.

He said, fine, but you tell him, this is going to stop.

We took it as a threat.

But

what I really am paying attention to right now is you look at these companies, and it is as if they know the ship is already sailed, and they want to be on that ship.

And so they are doing whatever they can to be able to survive in this new socialist madness that seems to be coming our way.

Yeah, I totally agree.

And I think the key to understand this is really the key

for this to be effective in the long run is to continue creating chaos.

You have to continue creating chaos.

And the way that you do this, the left has learned this over the past several months, the best way to do this is in the streets.

This is the best way to do this.

And the Great Reset, the thing that terrifies me the most about the Great Reset is they already have this network of youth activists that exist all over the world, not just in America, in 400 different cities.

Thousands of youth activists that have been trained by Al Gore's climate reality project to believe that we have to make these changes or else the world is going to collapse and we're all going to die from climate change.

You can imagine if they just take those ideas and superimpose it onto all of the stuff that we're seeing with Black Lives Matter, this is terrifying.

And yet I think this is just the beginning.

I think it's going to get worse than what we're seeing right now.

Okay, I'm going to take a quick break and come back, and I want you to talk about the global shapers.

That's what these 7,000 kids, 400 cities around the world, are all prepared to go out and shape the world closer to their heart's desire.

The global shapers.

We'll talk about that in one minute.

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All right, I guess we have Shelby on with us.

Sorry, Shelby, we're running behind here with you, but our phones went down mysteriously.

Are you there, Shelby?

Yes, thanks for having me on.

Oh, do we have you on Skype or something?

Yes, yeah.

Oh, audio only.

Good.

Okay, so Shelby, tell us what happened last night.

You're a media reporter for the Daily Caller,

and you

went into this crowd last night.

And what did you find?

What was happening?

Yeah, so when I first arrived, they were trying to tear down that statue right in front of the White House.

Police came fairly quickly, it seemed like, and and pushed these protesters back.

They were also trying to create their own autonomous zone.

It was going to be the Black House autonomous zone.

So police pushed them back.

There were definitely some scuffles between police and these protesters.

Then police started just basically holding the line,

and then protesters were on the other side holding that line.

And the situation remained tense for a few hours and just sort of escalated, as I'm sure you know, as the evening went on, with me in particular.

So before we get to that part of the story, they were trying to take down the Andrew Jackson statue, which I hate Andrew Jackson.

I think Andrew Jackson was one of the most racist guys ever to be president.

And that's saying something.

We've had Woodrow Wilson in that category.

But he was just, I think he was a monster.

But I don't think we need to tear his statue down.

It's a way to learn.

Did they make any impact on that statue at all?

No, they vandalized it.

So they did, you know, they were able to do that.

But in terms of tearing it down, I don't think that they managed to make too much headway with that.

Okay.

So then as the evening progressed, it gets dark and you're still there and you're there with a camera and you start talking to people and what happens?

Yeah, so I went sort of into the crowd because a group had arrived that had sort of makeshift shields and they were lining up right in front of police officers.

So I went a little bit closer to grab better footage of that.

And some of the protesters didn't like that I was filming them

and started accusing me of being a cop.

I'm not sure why, but they decided that I was an undercover cop.

I showed some of them, you know, my bio and stuff to show them that I wasn't a cop.

It calmed some of them down, but did not calm others down, and they just wanted me out of the area.

And so, did it get violent?

I know police had to come in to take you out.

Yeah, so at one point,

it got pretty aggressive.

One of the women who was screaming at me

sort of tried to hit me and got pushed into the cops, and then the cops pushed her back.

And then at that point, the crowd decided I was for sure with the cops since the cop had, in their view, defended me.

And one of the females just grabbed my phone and

started trying to steal my phone and a mob sort of formed around me.

At which point, some of my coworkers tried to step in and one of my coworkers actually pushed me into the police line so that police could pull me through.

And then that guy actually

protesters started complaining,

pushed me into police because I think they wanted me to stay so they could continue

going after me.

Were you afraid?

Yeah, I was a little nervous for sure, especially when the mob sort of started swarming around me.

I did make eye contact with a few of my male coworkers, and so I sort of knew, you know, if anything got dicey, which it did, that they were going to step in and help, which they did.

So that did make me feel a little bit better, but these situations just can escalate so quickly.

Do you know who Lara Logan is?

Yes.

I mean, I didn't think I'd ever see this kind of stuff here in the United United States, but these mobs are

mobs.

They are, I mean, that woman in that face mask that

was right up in your face.

She was wearing a, you know, like a football helmet with a cage over the front.

It was frightening right in your face.

Yeah, they were, I mean, yep, there's the, there's the woman.

Right there.

She had a full hockey mask on.

It seemed like she was one of the more aggressive people.

There were a few protesters in the crowd who were trying to sort of calm things down.

They seemed to believe that I was a reporter.

But in situations like that, I've often found that despite there being people trying to keep the peace, it only takes one or two for things to escalate, you know.

You've been covering the riots from the beginning.

What is the media missing?

So I think the media is missing that sort of nuance.

As I've said in the past,

it is not

just one way or another, right?

It's not just a peaceful protest, and it's not just also anarchy 300% of the time.

It's definitely a mix.

We've seen peaceful protesters.

We've seen them doing

so-called the right things.

And then we've also seen the looting and the rioting.

And it's much more complex than I think a lot of members of the media are portraying it as.

Well, I think there's a lot of people that are being betrayed

by some of the leadership of the extremes

that are marching in their name for justice.

I think there are people

like that, but I don't think, I mean, I think there's a very bright line

between

those people and the

Marxist revolutionary

and the anarchist.

And it's the anarchists that are being completely ignored, which are destroying the message of, hey, we need some reform in some police departments.

Yeah, I would agree with that.

I think there is something to be said for police reform, right?

Every organization can do better and improve.

And there's absolutely been instances where the police are wrong.

I'll be the first one to say that.

But to go to these extremes of destroying property and attacking people is just,

I think, sort of losing the message that some of these people are trying to get across.

It's hurting their cause a little bit, I would say.

And what is the

how many of them were there to pull down statues and start their own chazz?

And how many were there with good intent just to be seen and have their voice heard?

That's definitely hard to say.

There was for sure a fairly large group of protesters around the statue, at least 100 or so, a little bit more.

It was sort of the situation was definitely more hostile tonight than it was peaceful, or last night than it it was peaceful.

So, I would say there were probably more protesters who were

willing to get a little bit aggressive and violent and tear down statues than there were peaceful protesters.

Now, we've seen the opposite,

particularly sometimes during the middle of the day.

If you go out to these protests, they're typically almost entirely peaceful.

But, you know, as things go on and the night goes on, I think that's when it tends to that switch trends.

So if you were the president or you were the mayor of these cities,

what would you do?

You know, it's hard to say.

It's, you know,

I don't even know if I can say it's really my job to report on this and try to be as fair and accurate as possible.

I think

I would take a look at what all of these different cities are doing and

see what the results are.

You look at Seattle's autonomous zone.

There's been a few shootings there.

Is the mayor handling things correctly there?

And then you look at D.C., how that went down.

Is that a better way to handle things and sort of try to find a middle ground where

order can be restored, but the people's voices are still heard and the concerns are being addressed in a productive way.

Shelby, thank you very much.

Shelby Talcott.

She's a media reporter for The Daily Caller.