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Joe Biden has been running for president since 1987.

And

he can't seem to nail this down.

He was supposed to come out today and announce that he's running for president, but for some reason, he needed an extra day.

I don't know if it was to talk to his beautiful wife, Jill,

or if there was a problem that he needed to hug 20 more people today.

I don't know what it was.

But now ABC is confirming that Joe Biden is in the race officially tomorrow.

If that's true, he's got a problem with his progressive base because in the straw poll of progressives, only 8%

support Joe Biden.

This is going to be interesting to watch him run.

Quick zigzag down the field.

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We'll see Joe Biden.

We'll open our conversation on on that in one minute.

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Yes.

You're excited?

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No.

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Jocella.

No.

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Yeah, I like that one.

Okay.

Jocella is supposed to come tomorrow.

So, what we expect now, and ABC News has confirmed, and this is different than previous reporting on when they're going to announce, which were just sources inside the campaign and the buzz is and blah, blah, blah.

ABC News at least now claims that they've confirmed that Joe Biden will announce he is running for president of the United States tomorrow via a video.

That will be Thursday, and then Monday will be his first campaign event and that will be I think in Pennsylvania.

He's going to kick it off in Pennsylvania.

So it's interesting because he is the frontrunner coming in.

He will be the guy, you know, he'll come in as the favorite.

A favorite in a 20-person field though is not necessarily that exciting.

You want to be ahead, obviously, but a 20-person field can shake out in a million different ways, obviously.

So that's one of those things where

it could be the best moment of his campaign is Thursday morning, right before he presses play on the video, right?

Like, that's a very realistic possibility because people are going to pick apart his record.

It's very lengthy.

It is, you know, he's done a lot of stuff, and he's run for president multiple times.

And if you remember, he did not win any of those times.

He is not an unbeatable candidate by any means in a primary.

Democrats have handled him in the past.

Now, he comes in here with a sort of the cachet of vice president for eight years, eight years that Democrats, generally speaking, remember well,

although there's a turn on that a little bit with progressives lately, but generally speaking, they remember the Obama administration pretty well.

And he also comes in with

a couple of advantages over people like Bernie Sanders.

For example, Biden does very well with black voters.

You know,

he is, I think, America's second black president.

So Bill Clinton was first.

Biden would be second.

I don't know if Barack Obama counts.

But I guess

because I mean, it depends on how he identifies on a particular day.

We'll have to figure that out.

But Biden does very well with African-American voters.

He does very well in the Midwest as kind of his target area.

That obviously could be helpful in a place like Iowa, could be helpful in some early primary states.

It could be very helpful to him in South Carolina, where he is probably the biggest favorite of all, you know, as we start this off, where he looks to be the strongest.

So Biden's got a great path.

He's leading the polls.

All the I smell hair and touch people's shoulders too often thing has not really given him too much of a bump downwards.

Well,

may I bring you this from the

CDC?

The Centers for Disease Control?

Yes.

Okay.

Public officials have confirmed

the insect, and I can't pronounce the name of this insect, is a blood-sucking creature that feeds on animals and humans and has a particular fondness for biting faces.

They have confirmed the presence of this bug which they have deemed the kissing bug.

They have said for the first time,

it is here now, and it is

in Delaware.

I am not making that up.

So the kissing bug that likes to creep up behind you and kiss your face and nibble on your face and your ears

is in Delaware.

Wow.

Maybe this is what happened to Joe.

Maybe he bit a long time ago.

Or he's just the kissing bug.

He may be.

I think it's just him.

Yeah.

Because I'm thinking it's more like

a situation where like it was like the fly, right?

Maybe he went into a chamber with one of these bugs and they meshed somehow physically and like the molecular structure of his body turned into half kissing bug.

So now he goes up and just.

This is a good movie.

Could buy.

Could be.

A family in Kent County, Delaware contacted local health authorities after something had bitten their child's face while she was watching television.

Could have been Joe Biden.

It could have been Joe Biden.

Could have been Joe Biden.

Could have been.

I don't think there's any doubt.

In fact, now I've confirmed it.

ABC News is confirming that too.

The kissing bud.

Yeah, they're confirming the kissing bug fly meshing theory.

This is is big.

Don't call them for confirmation.

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We're going to take you to one of the other candidates, Kamala Harris.

Or Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris.

I can't get it right now.

No, you had to redo it the entire monologue yesterday because you kept saying Kamala over and over.

And I think I still said Kamala.

I mean, look, a lot of people are saying Kamala.

So you're not,

this is not one of your worst pronunciation violations as a broadcaster.

It is really pretty common.

But I mean, if you listen to her say it, it is Kamala.

Kamala Harris.

We're going to do Kamala Harris and share some stuff that we we shared on television in just a second, so stand by for that.

She's still third

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Yeah, if Biden's in, it's usually Biden Sanders.

And then there's a mix.

It depends.

Buddha Judge, I would say, might be third now.

Woco Harris may be fourth.

Then you've got the Bedos of the World and Warren in that next kind of group, maybe Booker.

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So, Kamala Harris, her father, wrote a blog post just in January.

And do you find it interesting, Stu, that this little family secret was put out on a blog

the year, the January that he knows his daughter is going to start running for president?

Seemed like an odd, maybe a little dump here.

Like they're they're kind of just dumping the information in the most obscure source possible so they can say we look we were the ones who told you about it we already talked about it yeah that does seem a little suspicious yeah yeah okay especially something like this why would you put this out i mean who would be proud of this in their family he curtain you know certainly is not so her father wrote on the jamaica global uh in january of this year i don't go to that website i have a paper subscription though i make sure i get that delivered if you had a physical subscription, I used to, but the newspaper delivery boy, he just never got it up to the porch.

It's pretty big.

On Sundays, it almost crushed the poor kid.

He wrote, My roots go back within my lifetime to my paternal grandmother, Miss Christy Brown, descendant of Hamilton Brown, who is on record as a plantation and slave owner and founder of Brownstown.

Okay.

So

his grandmother was a descendant of a slave owner and a plantation owner.

Okay.

You know, that's kind of bad for Kamala.

I mean, nothing to do with what Kamala did.

However, if you happen to be a person

who's out there in the public continually talking about reparations for people, descendants of slaves,

perhaps, you know, I know, I don't have any descendants

in my family that own slaves.

She does.

Shouldn't she be the one paying it?

If someone's going to be paying reparations, I think it should be all exclusively Kamala Harris.

If you're also one hanging out with a lot of people who are like, white people are bad, white people are bad, this white culture,

that kind of takes this apart too, doesn't it?

A lot of interesting developments here by this one little piece of family history that they themselves put out.

You have to believe that, you know,

we're the ones who told you that.

You're exactly right.

You're exactly right.

That is what they're going to say.

We're the ones who told you this.

We've already addressed it.

It's already been out there.

This is old news.

Yep.

Okay, so who is Hamilton Brown?

Who is Hamilton Brown?

We know he was the founder of Brownstown.

Well, it appears that he was also violently racist, violently hateful.

Now, this is the account of Harris's great-grandfather.

At the command of the overseer, he proceeded to strip off part of his clothes and laid him flat on his belly, his back and his buttocks being uncovered.

One of the drivers then commenced flogging him with a cart whip.

This whip was about ten feet long with a short, stout handle.

It's the instrument of terrible power.

It's whirled by the operator around his head and then brought down with a rapid motion of the arm

upon the recumbent victim, causing blood to spring at every stroke.

When I saw this spectacle now for the first time exhibited before my own eyes, with all of its revolting accompaniments, I saw the degraded and mangled victim writhing and groaning under the infliction.

I felt horror struck.

This is not the great-grandfather, this is

that saying I felt horror struck.

It's the one who stripped the slave and said to the coachman, whip him.

The rest of the account is even more horrifying.

It has a passage where the

man is

just

a bloody stump,

and he's laying on the ground, pleading and screaming, Think me, no man, think me no man.

In other words,

what am I?

A dog?

I'm a man.

It's crazy bad.

Crazy bad.

Now, this

is Kamala's great-grandfather.

And this was just released by her father in the press in Jamaica.

Now, she has asked for reparations for descendants of former slaves.

And maybe that's her

black guilt?

Is that what that is, Kamala?

She's gone on and called everybody a racist, but has she dealt with calling her own family racist?

And if her family was a racist, if her family had this guy in there,

should that say anything about Kamala Harris?

I would say no.

We don't hold people responsible for the sins of their fathers or their mothers or their brothers or sisters.

We don't do that.

That's barbaric.

But that's what reparations does.

It holds us responsible for something that we had nothing to do with.

So if you want to play the progressive game,

Kamala Harris is a nightmare.

She comes from

stock of

wicked racism.

her parents benefited she benefited from the from the shoulders of slaves

shouldn't she pay reparations

the answer is no

because she's not

the great-grandfather

She didn't found Brown Town.

So

how do you square that?

You certainly don't.

I mean, I think someone with that family history would understand that that's not how you, yeah, you're not responsible for the sins of your parents.

I mean, this is one of the things, the very fundamental things America did, right?

Was to not make it do a caste system, to not make it so royalty, you didn't get the benefits of your parents.

You didn't get automatically excluded if your

you know, your parents and grandparents weren't special people.

And the same thing happens for when they did things wrong.

If your parents and grandparents, great-grandparents were slave owners, you don't

do what you do.

You're an individual.

You do the correct thing while you're alive.

Well, see, here's the problem.

If you flip this around, because I know that there are people who will be for reparations who theoretically

could be listening, and they would be saying, Well, that's not what this is about.

That's not what this is about.

This is about giving African African Americans their slice of the American pie because their grandfather, great-grandfather, whoever helped build this land on slave labor.

And so what they should have had, what they helped build,

we should take some of that money and we should give it to their ancestors.

Well,

no, again,

because the people living today aren't the ones who earned that.

If we were alive, if it was 1865,

I would be for saying, yeah, you know what?

They do need 40 acres and a mule or whatever it was.

Let's pay that.

I'd be all for that.

But the people who were directly affected and directly would have benefited from it aren't alive today.

Yeah, we know how it ridiculously, first of all, it's impossible to implement with any all it I mean it's impossible to implement as stated, right?

If your idea is to give money to the descendants of American slaves that comes from, in theory, slave owners, right?

It's impossible.

First of all, it's unconstitutional.

You can't just target one specific race for a tax increase, right?

Like, that's not something that can happen.

It is legitimately completely unconstitutional.

And by the way, the people who would be arguing arguing for that first would be African Americans who are like, yeah, I don't think we've seen the history of this country.

I don't think targeting one race for a particular tax increase or maybe a poll tax, let's call it, is a good idea.

You know what?

I have to tell you, though, I think you're wrong.

in the fact that I think there are a lot of people, and I wouldn't even put African Americans in this.

I think African Americans may be more fair than progressive white people.

Oh, clearly.

Yeah.

You know, I mean, but the African-American would be the beneficiary of it.

True.

But I think even they would look at it and go, that's ridiculous.

Well, let's get into that then.

Who's the beneficiary of it?

It's certainly not someone who lived in Jamaica until four years ago, right?

It's people who, it's certainly not someone who lived in Nigeria and immigrated here 20 years ago, right?

It's certainly only people who are actually descendants of slaves, right?

So it's certainly not slavery in other countries, right?

No, what this is, Glenn, is a giant, it has nothing to do with slavery.

It is a giant redistribution of wealth plan.

That is how it would, the only way they could implement it is if they did it that way.

They would find a way to redistribute money, not from, because they would have to redistribute it from rich black people, too.

You can't just go in there and take money from only white people.

That is not something that's supposed to happen in this country, and I don't think could constitutionally occur.

You can't go target a race and pull money from them.

You can raise taxes overall and redistribute it to people at a certain level.

You could do that under the auspices of reparations.

We're making this old thing right.

And will some people who weren't descendants of slaves get this money?

Sure.

And will some people who were descendants of slaves that have become wealthy have to pay a little bit?

It's not going to be perfect, of course.

But the bottom line is we're righting a long-term wrong the best that we can.

And it's going to wind up being just another excuse for another one of these programs to take money from the evil people who have it and give it to the wonderful, virtuous people who don't.

We are just on top of a socialist nation right now.

Just on top of it.

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his podcast today.

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Yeah, okay.

So anyway,

so I'm listening to you today.

Yes.

And you're going off on Joe Biden Biden.

And you're talking about how corrupt.

And I'm listening to you talk about Ukraine.

And you're visceral about that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To get the, I mean, he was holding out on a billion dollars of aid to the Ukraine

for them to fire their

prosecutor general.

And if they didn't do it, they weren't going to get the billion dollars.

So he's holding that over their heads.

And they're like, well,

you don't have the power to do that.

You can't do that.

And he told them, yeah, make the call.

See if I can't do that.

If I don't have him the news that he's fired by the time I got on the plane back home, you're not getting your billion dollars.

He got fired before Biden got on the plane.

And then it turned out

that the prosecutor general

was investigating Biden's son.

And that's apparently the reason he wanted him fired.

I mean, what American vice president cares about the prosecutor general of another nation?

Pretty corrupt.

Pretty bad stuff.

Unbelievably corrupt.

And now to hear that the,

I didn't see the next night show about China.

You think that's even worse?

A lot worse.

Oh, no, it's a lot worse.

I mean, am I exaggerating?

A lot worse than that.

Yeah, I think that's true.

I think that's true.

This happened before Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken.

This happened before Ukraine.

And in that episode, I show you exactly how Joe Biden's son and John Kerry's son.

So

this is worse because you have the vice president and the secretary of state.

They're sons in business together.

And they start this business as soon as Daddy gets ordained and daddy's vice president.

John Kerry's son and

John Kerry's finance campaign finance guy start this business with Joe Biden's son.

They don't have experience in this, okay?

This is a brand new firm.

Within a year, they're flying to meet with the equivalent of BlackRock,

Goldman Sachs, Chase, JP Morgan, all of the

biggest investment firms in America.

All of the biggest ones, they're meeting with within a year year at the same time Joe is meeting with the head of state.

Then, a few months later, Joe and his son fly to China.

Joe goes and meets with the head of state while Joe's son meets with the Bank of China.

Okay?

The Bank of frickin' China.

Incredible.

So he goes and he meets with the Bank of China.

They get a deal that Goldman Sachs doesn't even have.

The Bank of China, which is the official government-run bank, gives them, what was it, $1.5 billion

to Joe's son's firm?

Just, you can invest this any way you want.

And then you see, how did they invest it?

The first thing they invested in was

a nuclear power company in China run by the government that was being investigated at the time, openly investigated by the FBI

for

bribing our people to get secrets from our nuclear officials.

Okay.

That's who they, the first one they invest in.

They are, they then send people to jail in America.

The FBI arrests Americans who have accepted bribes from this company trying to get nuclear secrets.

It's out.

They're convicted.

And Joe Biden and John Kerry's sons still

remain in business with that.

And they go a step further.

They then go into, and I don't remember the name of the aerospace company, but it is the Chinese government aerospace.

They make all of their military equipment.

They decide to invest in that company.

And they have all this money and they invest and they buy that company.

And then they're like, you know what we need to do?

We need to buy this American company.

There's this really good American company that makes this anti-vibration stuff.

It's really good.

It's an automotive company.

Well,

not exactly.

It's dual use.

Yes, you can use that, but it's also really, really good for like fighter planes.

So they buy this American company and they put it over there.

Now, by the way, The company that bought the American company, the Joe Biden investment company, the Chinese aerospace company,

had just been accused and charged in the United States for stealing our stealth bomber technology.

Okay, all of this is happening while Joe Biden and John Kerry are negotiating with China.

$1.5 billion in access to the Chinese government money to a firm that just started with three kids running it.

Holy cow.

What a great turn of fortune there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They must have showed a lot of promise.

So, Mike, my question is, when you see the Ukraine, when you see China, wait until you've got to watch the episode.

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bucks.

But when you see that thing on the chalkboard, it's like,

oh my gosh.

And how is it that nobody's picked this up?

How is it that you know, the only place you know about that is from the Blaze?

The New York Times is not interested in that, Washington Post.

He must he must be so confident in the fact that nobody's going to investigate that because otherwise, how would you, why would you subject yourself?

Well, we show you, we show you that.

We show you that I think it was Fortune magazine and Wall Street Journal.

They reported on all of these things in pieces.

Hey, look, he just did

the pieces together.

No, I don't.

Or was there a chasm between all of the pieces?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They put all the pieces.

They reported on the pieces.

Nobody has put it all together.

Peter Schweitzer.

Yeah, he did a lot of that in his book.

John Solomon's done some work on more of the Ukraine, but he's been all over that as well.

There's two investigative reporters that have done it.

You know, he doesn't run, and nobody looks into that because they don't care because he's out now.

But if he runs, I would think, you know, that's a pretty important story then, the corruption of Joe Biden and John Kerry.

But you've got to look into that now, right?

You've got to

take that into account now that it's out in the open.

As long as you're not corrupt, right?

I think that's the problem.

That's true.

I think there's three things sort of protecting him from this.

One is what you're talking about, Glenn.

A lot of politicians do this sort of thing with their families, and they don't necessarily want to open up that door and give that Peter Schweitzer

observation any credit.

They don't want people to be looking in, because I mean, the Biden people will just start looking into everyone else's, and they'll all find stuff like this.

I think, too, you also have,

it is a complicated story.

I mean, you just told it pretty well, and it's still complicated.

If you see it on the chalkboard and it's really laid out, you can understand it, but

it's not an easy, hey, Joe Biden's been sniffing my hair type of moment, right?

Like it's not, it's, it's a difficult thing to convey.

But that's the press's job.

And you notice, you, you just said something fascinating to me because it's absolutely true.

Nobody's going to go and dig for this except opposition.

And the opposition may not want to dig for it because then what are they going to find in their opposition?

You know what I mean?

Yeah.

But that's the job of the press.

But the press is not opposition.

They are not opposition.

They are opposition.

They're opposition to Trump, but they are not opposition to the progressives or to the left or the Democratic Party.

So if the candidates don't make it an issue, they won't make it an issue.

Yeah, and that's why the third thing is

if it happens and he gets called out on it, which I think would happen if he were to win the nomination in the general election, but in the primary, you're basically accusing the Obama administration of mass corruption.

Which they didn't even have a scandal.

They didn't even have a scandal.

You don't want to do that.

Exactly.

And I think now there's a separation there between Democrats and the socialist, like a Bernie Sanders socialist left who doesn't care about the legacy of the Obama administration, right?

Like, I think there is that line, and it's possible.

Look, in this field, there's

seven or eight legitimate, basically, socialists out there, and then a bunch of other ones that just happen to have all the same policies as socialists.

But, you know, it is one of them could easily be motivated to take

it down early.

Sanders would be the most likely one.

Warren, I think.

Maybe you could see one of those.

There's a few people.

Sanders doesn't care.

I mean, Sanders is the one who really doesn't care about the Democrats.

He's not even a Democrat except this time of year.

He legitimately switches in and out of the party when it comes to the presidential primary.

So, this is a guy who doesn't care about the Democrats.

He doesn't care about the Obama legacy.

He thinks they didn't go far enough.

He thinks all these other candidates won't go far enough.

So, he may try it.

And I think, you know, look, it's pretty legitimate.

I mean,

it's well backed.

There's banking records that support all this.

There's reporting of each part of it.

It's obvious.

And

it's so clear on what is happening because of the timing and

the actual banking transactions, who they got involved with, you know, it's the Secretary of State and the Vice President.

All of this stuff is so very clear.

But then you just add the fact that

these weren't guys who were like, you know what, I'm going to start a financial firm back in 1999.

They started it in 2009.

They started it when daddy was sworn into office.

It's crazy.

It's really, truly crazy.

And it's the sickness that was started and really kind of perfected by the Clintons.

This is the Clinton Foundation, except they didn't cover it with a, you know, they didn't have to say, well, it's a 501c3.

No, they didn't do any of that.

They just straight up went in for business.

Right.

And this is why, this is truly why we are headed towards a socialist oligarchy.

We are headed that the oligarchs are, we're in a place right now where our politicians are saying to themselves, this ain't going to last.

This just ain't going to last.

You know what?

I'm going to set myself up for the future.

I'm going to get what I can.

I'll set myself up and my family up for the future.

And it's the exact transition.

We're probably 1990.

maybe 1989 Soviet Union.

In their thinking, we know I can see the end coming.

This thing is going to be a train wreck.

It's going to collapse.

There's going to be new guards.

I'm going to be part of the new guard.

I'm going to take my communist uniform off.

We're doing the exact opposite.

I'm going to put my communist or my socialist uniform on.

And then

I'll be an oligarch on the other side, and I'll own the gas industry.

That's why they can't win.

Yes.

They can't win.

Yes.

Ever again.

Yeah.

I mean, I don't know why we prevent that.

And we have to.

But they can't win.

We have to select guards

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You know, it's amazing to me is how close we are to a refounding of our nation.

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I don't know if they realize how close we are to a refounding of this nation.

And I don't mean that in a good way.

That we may be one election away.

This next election could be the end of the free market,

could be

the end of the Constitutional Republic as we know it.

I mean, America will still go on, but it won't be the America that any of us grew up in.

And I don't know if you saw the thing from the founder of Home Depot.

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This is the founder of Home Depot.

He just came out and put a video out about the free market system.

Listen a little bit of this.

the poor.

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We are that close.

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special called Socialism, a warning from the dead.

You need to see the plan that was hatched a long time ago that could put us in a period of about three years before this country is flipped.

We'll show it to you next Wednesday.

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Your pics are going to come up.

You're going to do it tomorrow on the air, right?

Oh, tomorrow on the air?

Yeah.

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Do you remember every time that I was warning that Nazis, Nazis would rise again in Europe?

Nazis, in Greece, in Germany, in France, and here in America.

When I would warn that Nazis would come back, I was called an anti-Semite somehow or another.

Well, now you can...

Nazis are everywhere.

No, no, no, not like my prediction.

No, no, no.

Now everyone's a Nazi.

Everything is a Nazi.

And today I finally draw the line on the Nazi talk.

I'm going to introduce you to the fat sex therapist and her Nazi talk in one minute.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

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you look exasperated I

the the fat sex therapist I

I just don't think I don't I don't know if I can do it but I'm gonna play the audio now of the fat

sex therapist.

Don't do us any favors.

Here it is.

Body size has always been a marker of coloniality, especially since

the rise of capitalism in the 1600s and how we've seen white supremacy at work in many of these capitalist structures.

Again, I totally agree so far.

I am in on the commitment of coloniality.

Coloniality.

It's not even a word.

It's not even a word.

You're making up words now.

I disagree with that.

Coloniality is definitely.

Coloniality.

If it's a word, it's a new word.

They print words all the time.

It does just

showing up mostly in just like social justice.

Yes.

They make up words.

They're making up words.

Coloniality of power is a concept interrelating the practices and legacies of European colonialism in social orders and forms of knowledge advanced in post-colonial studies, decoloniality,

coloniality, and Latin American.

Who are the two guys that you had on?

It was Peter Bogozian

and James Lindsay.

You had them on for a podcast, which is coming up in a few weeks, I think.

We're releasing it.

And these are the guys that, two of the three people who put these fake studies and all these,

you know,

this is their stuff.

Like, these things, they're just a jumble of words.

Like, they just come up with these new words and they throw them in there and they make it seem like these are proven concepts or have some merit.

And it makes you sound smart, if you can pronounce them, unlike me.

But it makes you sound smart for a few minutes until someone decides to start thinking about it.

And then they say, wait a minute, what you've just said, it's like that moment in Billy Madison where it's like, everything you've said has just made everyone here dumber.

Like, that is like you have made everyone here stupid

because of your answer.

But what she's doing here is such important work.

Again, back to the fat sex therapist.

And so the end of fat phobia means the end of Western civilization as we know it.

Stop.

Stop.

The end

of fat phobia

means the end of Western civilization as we know it.

So wait, is she arguing for this or against it?

So she's saying if fat phobia ends, which you'd assume that she wants to happen,

then it will be the end of Western civilization.

So she wants that to happen?

She wants the end of Western civilization.

Now, here's the thing.

Western civilization, fat phobia has nothing to do with anything

except what people look at and say, I want a piece of that.

Okay?

It's what you generally can't have or don't have.

It's what the rich have.

That's what it is.

It started like this.

Years and years and years and years and years ago when everybody was a serf or a smurf.

I'm not sure.

I'm not up on my colonial.

What is it again?

Coloniality.

Coloniality.

Long before the free market system.

Painters were painting fat asses naked on

women and hanging them in their castles.

Why?

Because the picture of a fat woman was the picture of health and wealth.

You weren't starving.

Why did ladies paint their faces so white in France?

Because you had to work outside to grow your own food.

So the idea of a very pale skin was a sign of leisure.

Now we glorify not white skin because white skin, you're sitting indoors all the time.

You're working.

The sign of a tan is, oh, he plays golf all the time.

He must be wealthy.

Oh, they're outside.

They must be jet setters.

That's all this is.

That's all this is, is a sign of leisure time.

But fat phobia, that doesn't explain fat phobia.

Yeah, it does.

How?

People are afraid of fat people, and you've not decided.

Because

if you are fat, it's the sign that you are just an average working Joe that is going out there, busting their butt.

You're a mom in the school, you know, going to take the kids to school.

You don't have time to work out.

You're just eating at McDonald's, where the richest personal trainers are.

They have a personal trainer.

They have time to go and work out.

They have time to exercise.

It's the in-crowd.

That's all that is?

That's all that is.

But you think that's what she's talking about when she's talking about fat phobia?

No, she's...

No, no, no, no.

She's talking about that.

She's talking about like, you won't hire fat people and you don't think they're sexy.

And

it's It's like there's all these privileges of not being fat.

Correct.

That's what she's talking about.

She's talking about

the privilege of skinny people.

This is a society of privilege, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And yes, but it's a human thing.

But she's also arguing for that to be torn down, right?

Like she wants Western civilization to end.

Correct.

Okay.

Correct.

Because it'll be replaced with rainbows and unicorns and puppy dogs.

Always is.

Always is.

All the countries around the world that have gotten rid of capitalism always worked out well.

Yes.

And boy, you want to talk about skinny people.

Go to North Korea.

All right, go ahead.

Play some more.

Those things are connected.

The end of fatphobia would mean the end of racialized capitalism.

So when I talk about structures and systems, I'm talking about the root of it all.

I'm not talking about us making a new law or us,

I don't know, doing something else stupid like that.

We need to tear it all down because it's all toxic and bad.

So she wants to tear down the whole society.

Because it's all toxic.

I really don't understand though.

So the theory being, if we were to become unafraid of fat people,

then

racial capitalism would go away.

Can you draw the connections there?

Tonight we're going to start talking about how to politicize our definition of body image because oftentimes we actually get stuck thinking of it

through the lens of a white supremacist.

What?

White supremacist happens every day in these little things, and yes, even in fat.

We should be critical of the use of science and production of knowledge to contribute to promoting this idea of certain bodies that are fit, able, and desirable.

Is my fatness is that what causes my high blood pressure, or is it my experience of weight stigma?

I'm pretty sure it's your fat, sweetheart.

By experience of fat stigma?

Yes.

Yes.

However, she pivots to support scientific findings as she pondered intentionally pursuing weight loss, claiming what we're discovering scientifically

is that it's just not possible.

She challenges all authorities, not just the authority that science has given us, but also the legal authority.

The same way I want to challenge all laws, I want us to challenge all prisons and policing.

She's a therapist who claimed that she will never have a professional code of ethics that tells her what she's allowed and not allowed to do with her body.

She doesn't think that it's surprising that the man who shot up Christchurch in New Zealand was a fitness instructor.

She said there is a clear communication.

Listen to this.

There is a clear communication that there is still an idealized body.

Nazis love this idea of the perfect body, so it makes a lot of sense that he was a fitness instructor.

You know, she's going to be surprised to hear it doesn't make a lot of sense.

That's probably something that she should

be aware of.

Makes a lot of sense.

Does it?

A lot of sense.

All fitness instructors are Nazis.

I'm calling for America to come to its senses on Nazis.

Nazis are clearly bad guys, but there's a few defining characteristics of a Nazi, and I can't believe I have to go through this, but I will.

One,

they hate Jews.

Two, they hate everyone that doesn't look like them.

That's important to say it that way because they happened to be in Germany, so they believed in the Aryan race, but you could be called a Nazi if you hate everyone else except your race.

That's a sign of a Nazi.

Another sign of a Nazi, and you really have to have more than one.

You're a nationalist, which means you put your country first at the expense of all others and

you believe your country should rule the world even if it's through brutal force.

Next one,

socialist.

You have to be a socialist.

You have to believe that, yes,

your country should run everything.

even by force in the entire world, but you also believe your leader and a group of you Nazis should lead the entire country.

And even if it's through force, tell everybody else what exactly they should do, should not do, what they should eat, how they should work, all of that.

That's what a Nazi is.

Not a fitness instructor.

Okay?

Not a fitness instructor.

Also, a Nazi is not necessarily someone you disagree with.

Yes, I disagree with all Nazis,

but no, not all people I disagree with are Nazis.

I didn't follow that.

No, nobody in America did anymore.

Nobody in America does.

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I don't know why this story appeals to me.

I'm just going to get it out of my system instead of having it sit on my desk and ignore it until the weekend comes and then throw it away.

So, Nicholas Cage is in the news

because of some angry rendition he did of Purple Rain at some, you know, karaoke club.

Whatever.

I don't know why I was actually reading this story,

but here is here.

Here it is.

Apparently, the performance was fueled by his desire to annul his recent marriage of four days.

Nicholas Cage apparently tired of his new wife

and has filed for an annulment.

He says they were wasted when they got married in Vegas and acted on impulse.

There were signs it wasn't going to end well, apparently.

They got into a heated argument right before walking down the aisle.

Erica, however, his wife, doesn't see that way.

She says the marriage is completely legitimate, and she says Nick has asked her to come back.

She wants spousal support.

Four

days into it, she wants spousal support.

Well, she got, you know, accustomed to a lifestyle.

Exactly right.

Look, he needs to support it.

It's exactly right.

I mean, the only reason why this interests me is what happened to Nicholas Cage.

It has not been a good road.

It has not been a good road.

I mean, first he

didn't have to sell all of his homes.

He was buying crazy homes everywhere.

He made lots of money, then got very irresponsible with it.

Yeah.

Then had a need to basically make every movie offered to him to try to pay off all the debts.

Literally.

And he had to make every movie offered to him.

So he did, and a lot of them were really, really bad.

And he's a good actor yeah I mean he's still a good actor he you know but it's tough at this point to take anything he does seriously because he's making you're not going to make bad movies you're not saying oh the new mini Nicholas Cage is out you're seeing it now going oh new Nicholas Cage it could be really good but I'm gonna let somebody else I'm gonna still let somebody else step into that lava pool first you kind of wonder why

he's not taking stuff like a supporting actor role in a good movie.

I mean, he can still do that.

You know, I don't know if he just feels like he has to be the lead.

Maybe it's like an ego thing, or maybe people are just like, look, we're not, we can't do, this guy's too nuts.

We can't do anything with him.

Well, I was going to say, you know,

it would be good to see this guy turn his life around.

You know, and you'd think if you'd lost everything, you might have turned your life around.

Yeah, it might be your bottom, but apparently, no.

He just, I mean, he's...

He just got married and four days later, he's like, what have I done?

I've sobered up.

No, that was a bad idea.

He's not exactly signaling competence.

No, he's really not.

He's not giving, if you were hiring for movies, you know what I mean?

You're like, hey, you know, we've got Nicholas, and then somebody hands you that story.

You're like,

yeah, I don't think we're going to go with Nicholas Cage.

It's like, and there's a, there's a certain level of

because businesses can go bad, right?

You can have it, you can open up a restaurant and it goes well for a few months.

And you know what?

It's this, maybe people aren't coming as often and then you lose, right?

And you have to close it down.

But then there's like the business that opens and like a week later has to close and you're like what was the plan going into this

like there was a there's a football league that started this year called the aaf and it was like highly promoted they promoted it for an entire year and it launched to much fanfare for you know big sports fans that want some you know football in the summer and the in the spring it go it comes on it debuts it was on i think nbc got it they got a contract there and the nfl network it's the games are on tv it's rolling and like two weeks in there's a story.

It's like they had to get an immediate cash infusion of $100 million.

Like, wait a minute, what were they planning on?

Did they think they were going to sell more tickets than were in the stadium for five times the cost each?

And then a few weeks after that, they like move the location of the championship game.

And then two weeks after that, oh, we're folding.

They didn't make it through the first year.

Like, you have all of this money, huge names behind it, like big investors.

And just, you can't even make it through one season.

Your business plan didn't, I mean, your business plan should basically be: if only 2,000 people show up to every game, we'll still get through this first season.

And they had much better attendance than that.

They had TV contracts, and the thing fails.

And I just, like, when you're going into it, why are you starting it if every single thing has to go right for you to win?

Well, I could comment on this, Stu, but I'm saving all my sports commentary for tomorrow.

Oh, that's right.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Okay, now, so here's the thing: mock draft.

Here's the thing.

I said it would be good to get Stu to review Game of Thrones without knowing anything about it.

And so the other day he said, you know what?

I think turnabout is fair play.

I think it would be entertaining to have you pick

the draft, yeah, maybe the top 10

picks,

predict them for like a mock draft, and we'll give you the information that you need to make those picks.

Except I don't think you're giving me the information I need.

No, we put this together yesterday.

I think you're going to have plenty.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I believe it's their dating history, their grades in school.

We'll see.

We'll see what you get to.

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You know,

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I don't think so.

Why?

Because you know that's not really private.

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Not a good idea, right?

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Okay, so here's the thing, and I'm not going to go over this.

We went over it yesterday, but just to refresh your memory, in case you didn't hear it yesterday, you've only been hearing this news elsewhere.

That song sounds really racist, but it is actually from a Broadway play that

was written for her and another guy who was a civil rights activist whose father was a runaway slave.

They were mocking racists.

That's what that was.

Let me give you another example of this.

It is exactly the same kind of song.

Germany was having trouble.

Weather says that story from Broadway.

Where, oh, where was he?

Where could that man be?

We looked around and then we found the man for you and me.

And now

it's springtime for Hippo and Germany.

Now, you may not find

that's why darkies were born to be humorous, but it is the exact same intent as this song.

And some people may not find, you know, singing about the master race

being funny either.

But it is to mock those people.

But nobody seems to want to even talk about that.

Have you heard that anywhere, Stu?

Have you heard anyone talking about this in this way?

Very little.

There's been some...

It's been noted in a few stories.

You're in paragraph eight, still reading about Kate Smith.

You could find that out and find a little detail on, hey, this, by the way, was also sung by a civil rights activist, and it had that history.

But it's not the focus of the story, right?

The focus of the story is this racist, there's a racist statue out in front of Yankee Stadium, and they took it down.

And that's what's fascinating, I think, about this from

when you step back a little bit and start thinking for a moment.

I think this was in 1933.

Was it 1931?

31 was the other song, 33 is this.

She was very early in her career.

Right.

And again, another piece of perspective.

She was in a situation where she was under contract to do every song assigned to her.

This is not like today's, it's not like Ariana Grande.

She doesn't get to pick her own songs.

She doesn't, you know, that's not what happens back then.

Back then, you had an executive saying, you should sing this song.

So it's even possible, right?

Like, it doesn't exonerate her.

from the racism claims because this is a song that was meant to parody racist.

It was assigned to her.

She sang it because she had to sing it.

Now, she may also, every indication is that she would have agreed with this sentiment.

She recorded 3,000 songs, 3,000 songs, and they've picked out two with these issues, one of which is completely explainable, as we have just talked about.

The other one was she was playing a role in a movie, basically.

Again, like all the actors who just sang Springtime for Hitler, do we hold them responsible for Hitler?

Do we think they're all, do we think they're all white supremacists?

Well, I saw them in pictures in Nazi uniforms.

Right.

Like, it's just crazy.

And everyone knows it's crazy.

But, you know, no one remembers what Kate Smith was like.

No one knows what the perspective of the time is.

People don't get to paragraph eight of these stories.

Imagine what her family is feeling.

Oh, I know.

And they're very upset about it.

I mean, this is a woman who, again, raised, talking about Nazis here, raised the equivalent of $10 billion in war bonds to defeat the Nazis.

Herself.

Herself.

Herself.

Some of it was with groups, but I think it was, she did one by herself.

It was $100 million in one fundraising

aspect that is now much, much worth much, much more than that.

that.

Think about that.

I mean, that is something that's certainly more than I will ever achieve in my life, that you will ever achieve with your life, that probably almost anyone here will ever achieve in their life.

If you could raise $10 billion to fight the Nazis, I don't know.

I mean, think of the work you've done with the Nazarene Fund, for example, which has been amazing.

I mean, you know, millions and millions of dollars.

This audience has raised millions and millions of dollars to support pulling Christians out of the Middle East.

It's been, you know, incredible.

It wasn't $10 billion, though.

Like, I mean,

this is one of the most amazing achievements by an individual probably in our nation's history.

Now, I contend, I contend that this is only happening because it's, again, tearing down our traditions, tearing down,

it's all about Kate Smith singing, God bless America.

That's all that is.

That song was written for her.

That was written for her to be able to raise money to defeat the Nazis.

So

we have to erase that.

That's what this is about.

But

it's not going to stop at Kate Smith.

And you know what?

America, if this is what you decide to do, then it shouldn't stop at Kate Smith.

It's true.

How about the New York Yankees?

This column from David Marcus, the Federalist, who points out, if you're going after Kate Smith, you also have to fold the New York Yankees franchise because the New York Yankees franchise intentionally kept black athletes off of their team for decades, despite the fact that they were better than many of the white athletes that

they paid to play baseball.

There was a ban, a complete ban, as you may remember,

that black athletes could not cross.

There was a crossing of the color line that needed to occur, and it didn't occur with the Yankees.

In fact, it didn't occur to the Yankees until later.

They went, by the way, this is after 1933 and 1931 when Kate Smith was was supposedly singing these racist songs.

Years and years after that, the Yankees banned all black people from working on their team.

Think of which one is worse?

Somebody who did a parody song to parody how bad racists were

or

actual racists working at the U.

At the New York Yankees.

saying no black people can work here.

Think of that.

I mean, it's much, much worse.

And of course, as adults, right,

we realize, I think correctly today,

that that was a really bad time, that people were making really bad decisions, and the people who made those decisions were wrong and

should be looked

in the context of the time as,

you know, be judged for some of those actions.

I think, obviously, we all admit and all agree that baseball should not have been banning black players.

However,

here we are, you know, 70, 80 years later, and we all are like, okay, well, that was a really bad time in history.

I'm really glad it's gone.

And you know what?

But, you know, the Yankees, people who are there today have nothing to do with that.

None of those people were there doing it now.

But the Yankees themselves will tear down a statue of a woman who did not one

thousandth.

of what the Yankees did to hurt black people.

And not to mention not one one thousandth of the good that Kate Smith did for the country.

Because as we all know, the Yankees are evil.

So with all of that put together,

we immediately must fold this franchise if we're going to be morally consistent.

And we all know that is not the goal here.

Right.

We all know that.

You have to ask yourself, why was somebody even looking into Kate Smith's history?

Why?

Why?

Just to dismantle our history.

Just to dismantle and besmirch another tradition.

Well, what's next on the tradition line?

And why do you think the New York Yankees would come out and take such a quick and strong stand against in hopes that they will be saved, in hopes that nobody will look into their record and say, wait a minute, you're even worse than Kate Smith, hoping that if they just offer this dead woman and her reputation

an American hero, really, truly an American hero.

Give them Czechoslovakia.

Yes.

That's just one little thing.

The Sudan land, just give it to them.

What's the big deal?

They promise they're not going to march into Poland.

They promise they won't.

They won't.

And you know what?

You can take Adolf at his word, I'm sure.

Yes.

This is what they're doing.

They're giving the sacrifices and hoping it goes away.

Well, for the Yankees, at least it shouldn't go away because, number one, they're evil.

And number two, just like a bunch of other teams, you know, and I think the column makes a good point.

I think we have to fold every team that wasn't an expansion team.

Any team that was in this era that banned black players obviously should be folded.

We should tear down all the stadiums and hope that this dark part of our history can go away and maybe we can relaunch a new New York team.

Got to be different owners, got to be a different name.

But maybe the New York can have a baseball team in the future.

It just can't be related to that horrible thing that we had in the past.

The Metropolitans.

Yeah, they already have those, but yes.

Really?

Well, they call them the Mets.

You may be.

Yeah, you're right.

The Mets.

I didn't know it stood for the Metropolitans.

I'm like, that's, I'm trying to think, what's the worst name you can come up with?

The Metropolitans.

And by the way, Glenn's draft coverage coming tomorrow on this show.

Because it's going to be a freaking adventure.

That's amazing.

They should name a basketball team, the Knickerbockers.

Yes, Glenn.

That's a good idea.

They should.

Well, I'm glad they shortened those.

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And Will is an amazingly smart guy, really good guy.

He's got a great career going for him.

And I'm thrilled that he

really kind of kicked his career off in some ways here.

And now at ESPN, and he is demonstrating such courage.

He didn't have to get involved in this Kate Smith thing, but listen to this argument.

What show is this from, Stu?

I don't remember.

It's him, and Stephen A.

Smith, and I think Max Kellerman from ESPN.

So listen to what Will has to say about Kate Smith.

You're asking me and Max.

Will, what are you suggesting should be done?

Okay.

I'm suggesting it's an absolute and utter fool's errand to go back through history, decades, someone who's been passed away for 30 years, incidents which occurred eight decades ago, and apply modern historical standards to something you can almost reach a century.

I'm suggesting that your standard, yours, only requires a handful of people to be a little outraged to go back and tear statues down.

And I'm telling you that by your standard, President Obama's statues would not stand to today's standards when it comes to gay rights.

And that today is...

That's fair.

That's Obama.

That's fair.

Don't ask me.

That's fair.

What are you talking about?

Marcus only opposed gay rights.

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That's pretty damn easy for you to say because you're not the offended party.

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the the person or the group that's not the offended party to take that position.

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That's not.

I mean, as a member of the not offended party in almost every circumstance, it is not easy at all.

The easiest thing in the world is to act offended, right?

It's called virtue signaling.

Exactly.

That's the easiest thing in the world to do.

Just go on with whatever party is being offended.

You side with them.

You look virtuous.

You can't get in trouble.

It's the easiest thing in the world to do.

It takes great courage to do what

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Stephen A.

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Yeah.

Stephen A.

Smith is, you know, he's an interesting guy because sometimes you're like, yes, yes, I totally agree with what he's saying.

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I mean, this takes no thinking at all.

I mean, listen to what he just said.

You know, I'm the, my people are the

aggrieved party.

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We don't.

We can listen to the aggrieved party and hear them and say, okay, I see how much damage has been done here, and we'll take that into consideration.

But we don't let the aggrieved party judge or sentence.

That's what's different about america you're supposed to be blind on this and and if you are angry

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It was a parody.

It was making fun of racists at the time.

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Like,

it wasn't listening to the evidence that made him be not guilty.

Even as

jurors on the case have now admitted it wasn't about him.

It was about how we've been wronged all this time.

That's a terrible way to make decisions on individuals.

But if you happen to be a collectivist, well, then it makes a lot of sense.

And that's why this fight between individualism and collectivism is so important.

I mean, because you can always be on the wrong side.

Anyone can say they're the offended party.

It's a great job by Will Kane there to stand up.

He's not perfect.

I mean, he's a Cowboys fan, but other than that, he's pretty good.

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You know, I've...

I'm trying to come up with a fair definition for what I think American socialism

is to people who claim to be democratic socialists.

Something that is fair but accurate.

And if you look at Seattle and you think,

What happened to that city?

How did they get to where they are?

Look at San Francisco.

How did that happen?

Well,

I think because of the definition of how I would define socialism,

I want to talk about what's happening to these great, great cities and

the absolute effect of socialism that is now being pushed as the answer for the entire country.

You want to see our future?

Look at Seattle.

We begin there in one minute.

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And a friend of mine from Seattle sent it to me and I watched it.

And I couldn't believe it was the same city that I knew and loved and grew up in.

It is turning into an absolute nightmare.

And not just a nightmare for the people who live there,

you know, and are doing well or whatever, but for the homeless and the

mentally unstable.

It is becoming a concentration camp.

It's horrible, all in the name of justice.

It is horrible what is happening in Seattle.

It's almost a complete breakdown.

I asked Stu to watch it.

Did you watch the whole thing?

Yeah.

Incredible, wasn't it?

It really is great.

I had no idea it was as bad as the documentary showed.

I mean, you know, look, we all know that every city has areas and problematic issues, but this goes way beyond

anything that I've seen anywhere else because essentially they portrayed it as the city has basically,

I wouldn't say given up, I would say intentionally is avoiding trying to make these situations better, I guess on the basis basis of social justice for

I don't know if it's the homeless people or people who use drugs or whatever it is, they're not prosecuting any of these crimes anymore.

They're not trying to stop them.

They're just letting everyone do whatever they want.

So everyone's deciding, you know what looks like a toilet?

That place right there in the middle of the sidewalk.

So in fact, let me play a couple of the cuts from this documentary because this is what is happening all over the country.

The progressives...

have gone nuts.

It's now full-fledged Marxism, and they are not enforcing the laws.

It's chaos.

It's horrible.

And all in the name of compassion.

Listen, here's Scott Lindsay on the homelessness and the rise in crime.

Go ahead, Colin.

This is a list of familiar faces, repeat offenders, people who break the laws, get caught, get released, and break the laws again and again and again.

There are a hundred names on the list.

Scott Lindsay is the man who dived into public records and researched the list.

If we take somebody into the jail, don't give them meaningful help, and then put them right back out on the streets, we know they're going to commit the same crimes in the same places.

And our public records, our criminal justice records, really show that that's exactly what's happening.

Look at the sheer volume of criminal cases.

Calvin A, 68 criminal cases since 2002, repeated random assaults on random individuals.

Drainon B, 54 criminal cases since 2016.

Michelle C., 72 cases since 2000.

And the the list goes on and on.

Seattle's mayor says this.

It is wrong to conflate homelessness with a rise in crime.

For at least 100 people, it would at the very least appear to be a factor.

Of the 100 that you looked at, what percentage of them were homeless?

Yeah, from our criminal justice records, 100% had indicators that they were currently homeless.

And what percent showed signs of addiction?

Yeah, 100% also showed signs of a substance use disorder.

And what percent were mentally ill?

Yeah, a little less than half had been evaluated by the courts formally for mental health conditions, serious, severe mental health conditions.

That's incredible.

Dozens and dozens and dozens of times, the same people, they pick them up and can't do anything about them.

Now, listen to this.

Imagine being a police officer in Seattle.

Let's play Homeless Man Says He's Conquered Justice System.

This is an amazing scene.

And escalated into assaulting police officers.

He's standing in a garbage can.

A bunch of cops were deployed.

Stand up so we can get out of here.

Briggie spit on them.

Don't spit.

Fought them.

Hey, no biting.

Don't bite yourself either.

Sand up, Travis.

We're going to the gurney.

Here's the gurney.

It lasted hours.

Well, I'm actually not even high right now.

Travis is outrageously unapologetic about his life and his world.

He could care less about yours.

Do you steal for your habit?

I actually just started stealing.

Last Monday, I started stealing.

And

oh my god, dude.

That was one of the hardest sacrifices is to like do unrighteous things in front of my dudes.

Travis, just relax.

Travis, do you want to smoke?

Travis, you want to smoke or a candy bar?

No!

But um...

Will you continue to do that?

Oh, I'm i'm having a blast now it is so much fun what what should the system do with a guy like you um i think that this system has has done uh what any

viable um

legitimate system would and they've really like exalted me uh

and like shown uh deference and and love towards me back the f ⁇ go i want to see you big it up with your mouth remember when you caught it with your toes and like i don't feel like i'll ever be arrested again.

I haven't been in jail for like a year and three months or so, you know?

So a change like that, responding to a big change, definitely shows that I have conquered the criminal justice system.

Want to know the sad part, the truly frustrating part?

He's probably right.

That's amazing.

These scenes look like they're out of like Reno 911.

They don't even look real.

Like Ronnie Dobbs for Mr.

Show.

Like this, some guy who's just out there going crazy on the cops.

And I mean, it looks like a parody of the television show cops, but it's actually happening.

And the cops are leaving.

The cops can't do it anymore.

Let me play the third cut here.

Seattle cops express frustrations.

Listen to this.

One officer wrote simply, yes, I am frustrated because I'm a law enforcement officer that is told not to enforce the law.

Another wrote, it's simple.

Start keeping criminals in jail.

Judges need to stop giving them ridiculously low sentences, and prosecutors need to stop accepting cheesy plea deals and actually lock people up when they commit a crime.

That's all it would take to drastically lower Seattle's crime rate.

Another officer said, people come here because it's called Friatle, and they believe if they come here, they will get free food, free medical treatment, free mental health treatment, a free tent, free clothes, and will be free of prosecution for just about everything.

And they're right.

It didn't used to be that way.

Law enforcement officers used to be able to enforce the laws.

This officer continues.

In the last five years, there has been a culture shift, and it started with the legislature decriminalizing felonies and dumping convicts onto the streets.

And then there is this.

An officer says, even if quality warrant arrests are made, the judicial system sees fit to let them out of jail within a couple of days, often the next day.

Why are we risking our lives to take felony-level fugitives into custody if they're just going to be released?

Prosecutor's office and judges alike seem to be drinking all the Kool-Aid, causing a huge disconnect and a broken system with absolutely no teeth.

He went on to say, people will ask why didn't we put any of the officers that responded positively about it?

And he said, because we received exactly zero responses from police officers that were positive.

Seattle is dying, and it's dying because of a socialist system, and it is spreading all over the country.

Just this last weekend, the Dallas, Texas DA said, as long as people steal things that are worth less than $750,

he will not prosecute, unless it was to enrich themselves.

What the hell does that even mean?

What he meant was: there are people that need things,

and if they go into a store and they really need it, and it's less than $750,

unless they were taking that to sell it,

you know, then they're okay.

We're not going to prosecute.

That's the kind of stuff that leads to what's happening in Seattle and San Francisco.

And it is destroying so many of our our great, great cities.

It's destroying them.

Will anyone stand up?

Well, the people are in Seattle.

And what was so incredible in this documentary was to see how out of touch, no,

to see how arrogant the city council and the mayors are.

and see how they despised the people who voted for them.

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Seattle.

On fire.

Totally on fire.

Let me play cut for Seattle cop blogger quits.

Calls it a concentration camp.

Listen to this.

There was a police officer named Todd Wiebke.

He prided himself on getting his boots dirty, on meeting the people on the fringes, in the camps.

He tried to find common ground as human beings, and he tried to police.

He wrote a blog for a long time, first-person musings about patrolling what happens in the dark shadows of West Seattle.

Not long ago, he wrote this.

This week I dealt with crisis, with narcotics, with heartache, and with liars.

Sometimes all at once, sometimes one at a time.

I am helpless to unlock the doors when dealing with a person trapped in a horror inside of their own mind.

Lord, I try, but I am a limited man with just a little skill.

I still love coming to work.

We have an awesome city with the ability to adapt and overcome.

The only way to lose is to not try.

We are trying to solve this crisis, and we will not lose.

And then one day this past October, Todd Wiebke was told by one superior to impound an RV and clean up the spot.

And when he did it, another superior scolded him for doing so because of new protocol.

He had a belly full and he walked into HR and he quit, retired, just like that.

I feel like I abandoned the ship, that I walked away, and I did because I couldn't do it anymore.

It was just the bureaucracy built up to the point where I felt like I was no longer necessary as a police officer, that the system had a different idea of how they wanted to handle it, and I was an appendix.

I needed to be gone, so I'm gone.

Ask anyone.

They'll tell you this was a good cop, the kind we want out there, the kind we need.

But I will tell you that there is no morale.

There's a love for the job.

He says the drugs, the camps, the theft, the rot, and the disgrace of it all don't have to destroy Seattle.

They're being allowed to.

Everybody's trying to do the right thing.

It's just coming out wrong.

Listen to these next words carefully.

Let them sink in.

You know, I've said it before, and I'll say it again: that the only thing I can equate it to is we're running a concentration camp without barbed wire, up to and including the medical experiment of poisoning these people with drugs.

I don't know how else to put it, and it's infuriating.

Now, when people speak out, they're shouted down.

Here's a lifetime resident of Seattle calling out the city council for ignoring solutions to the homeless problem.

Listen.

Steve Danaschek has spent his whole life in Seattle.

He says when misdemeanors stopped being enforced, it was the beginning of the end.

And at that point, everyone got the message.

It's a free-for-all down here.

It's the Wild West.

No laws apply.

Do whatever you want.

I could go down here and pee on the street or crap over there or smoke a joint.

No one's going to get arrested for doing that because they're not doing that.

They're not arresting anyone.

If I was a city council member, I might say, well, we're overwhelmed.

We've got this homeless epidemic.

No, no, no, no.

The city council is not overwhelmed by anything.

The city council are idiots.

They know that there are solutions out there.

They simply have turned their back on the solutions.

The problem is, and you see in this documentary, it's from KOMO News in Seattle called Seattle is Dying.

Watch it because it's coming to a city near you.

The city council is brutal, brutal to the people who are standing up.

They're like, you got to call the police.

And the people are saying, I did call the police and they said to come to you.

Now you're sending me back to the police.

People are just getting the runaround.

That's why when I'm trying to describe this socialism, this Marxism that's coming, I try to do it charitably, but it is a group of non-expert experts who believe truly that they are smarter than the people that they serve.

They make the rules, the laws, and market decisions that, yes, may hurt individuals.

But those individuals are just part of out-of-faber groups.

And those individuals can either afford it or deserve it.

All things are done

in the guise of or for the goal of social or economic justice.

As those things begin to break down, those in control also begin to abuse their power through graft, greed, and ignorance.

That's what's happening.

They're just getting

cronies coming in saying, oh, no, you're a genius.

No, we can fix this.

No, that's right.

Give me some power.

Give me some money and I'll help you.

And the people are getting, and the people on city council and the people in city hall are growing further and further away from the people and the problem.

And that's what's happening in Washington, D.C.

as well.

Those people

in Washington, D.C., do you think they actually like you?

Do you think Nancy Pelosi wants to come over to your house and have dinner at your house?

Do you think she would just fit in with all of your friends?

That she'd be saying the same kinds of things that you're saying?

Do you think?

Because I don't.

I don't think most of the people in Washington would be comfortable around you.

Would be comfortable around me.

They would come and see me because I have some sort of influence, they think.

And so they'll come and see me, but they don't want to.

They don't need to come see you, especially if we get rid of the Electoral College.

They'll never see you.

That's what's happening in Seattle.

The elites are running it because they know better than the other people that live here.

And they don't know Jack.

And they're destroying our cities.

And they're about to destroy our nation.

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Yes.

We're talking about a documentary that came out from KOMO News in Seattle called Seattle is Dying.

I was shocked by this documentary because I grew up in the Seattle area, grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington.

I love Seattle.

It's one of my favorite cities.

And it's just being destroyed.

And I saw this documentary and I thought, I recognize the street corners that this is all happening on.

This used to be a great part of the city.

It's now just a horror show.

And all in the name of Marxism and compassion, they are just destroying people.

And I mean the homeless people, just destroying them.

And all of the people that are living there are living through hell.

And it doesn't seem to me like the city council has anything but contempt for the people who live in Seattle, pay taxes, and are trying to run businesses or just go to work.

Ari Hoffman, he is a board member on a cemetery in Seattle that was part of this documentary.

And we wanted to get him on to talk a little bit about

his experience and what happened with the cemetery that he's a board member of.

Hello, Ari.

How are you?

Good morning, Glenn.

How are you doing today?

Very good.

Thank Thank you for coming on the program.

My pleasure.

Sure.

I don't know your politics, don't really care about your politics, but do want to hear about your experience

in Seattle and

what happened to you and the cemetery that you're a board member of.

Sure, I've been on the board for about 10 years, and the cemetery has been around for 130 years.

And the name of the cemetery is Beaker Kolen, which translates to helping the sick.

And it funds our synagogue services for the Jewish community.

And what happened was I got a call about a year ago exactly that said, hey, Ari, we have a problem.

Prostitution, drug dealers, pimps, drug dealers, and addicts have all moved into the cemetery.

We have a real problem here.

They're causing hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage.

Can you help us out?

And I went to elected officials.

I went to city officials.

I went to anybody I thought could help, and nobody was interested in helping us.

So I took it to the media, and we started this massive media campaign, and finally enough pressure was brought to bear that things started changing.

And we even had to bring armed former Israeli soldiers out to the cemetery to guard some kids who are putting flags in the ground for a Memorial Day event that they do every year.

What part of Seattle is it?

This isn't a bad part of Seattle?

I mean, or is it all Seattle?

It's in Northgate.

This is in Northgate, which is a nice neighborhood in Seattle, and nothing ever happens out there.

We haven't had anything like this in 130 years of being in operation.

And because of policies by the Seattle City City Council, this is now happening.

So what are the policies that lead people to go and live in a cemetery?

It's pretty much enabling behavior.

People are coming from across the country because they hear that they can get free whatever they want in Seattle, and nobody's going to do anything.

Nobody's going to enforce the rule of law and they can get away with whatever they want.

They can live wherever they want and nobody's going to do anything about it.

When I was in San Francisco a few years ago,

I was driving my car and these homeless people came, and they were walking in the street, and they just started pounding on my hood.

And they were just, they were belligerent.

Who do you think you are with your car?

And I was like, I'm just driving to the hotel.

I'm what?

And they were, you know, coming across the street, and they made it very clear they own the street, not the cars, not the people who are trying just to, you know,

get to and fro and obeying the law.

They own the street.

Is that attitude

pervasive now in Seattle as well?

Yes, near my office in Georgetown, which is a more industrial area, a whole bunch of these RVs have moved in, these broken-down vehicles, which people are living in.

And the city council keeps claiming these are homeless people, but I know that they're running drugs and other criminal enterprises out of these vehicles.

And when I go up to confront them to get them to move, they say things to me like, I make more money dealing drugs than you'll ever see in a lifetime.

It's become a very dangerous neighborhood.

It's not safe.

And Georgetown is unique because it has a residential neighborhood mixed in with commercial neighborhood.

And the residents there are beside themselves.

So one of these people sold in a full-size semi-truck, the cab part of it, and crashed it into a few cars the other day.

It's just out of control in that neighborhood.

So Ari, you're running for city council.

Yes, sir.

I decided I had enough of what was going on and that the only way to get things done sometimes is to step in yourself and try and get it done.

So that's what I did.

I stepped up to the plate and said, it's got to be better than what these guys are doing.

And I started doing my research and I started analyzing it.

And I realized this was all a policy problem.

And it was all the behavior they were enabling in Seattle.

And they're not treating the drug addiction.

They're not treating the mental illness.

And they're calling it a

housing crisis, a homeless crisis.

So, but it is really, and I don't want to get into politics, but

it is this

social and economic justice attitude

that creates these policies that are so prevalent in Seattle and San Francisco and the arrogance that usually goes with that.

I mean, I've seen clips of the city council.

They're not listening to the people.

They don't care about the people.

It's almost like they despise the people.

It sure seems like that to me as well.

We try to talk to them.

They refused to meet with us.

One of them was supposed to come out to the cemetery to meet with us and send staff instead, even though we had organized the community to be there to meet with them.

Another one refused to meet with us and said, flat out had their staff tell us they're not meeting with us.

And I just had enough of that.

So what what I did was I took their office number and their email for their office and I put it online and I said, hey, Jewish community, let them know what you think.

And six hours later, they called me for a meeting because they got so much pressure.

But at the same time, after that meeting, they said, you know, they made all these promises in this meeting and they didn't follow through on any of them.

And we still had to do things ourselves.

I mean, during the winter, things got better at the cemetery just because people didn't want to be outside.

They moved to other areas of Seattle.

But just two weeks ago, the RVs came back and we're dealing drugs again.

And thank God we got a grant in the off off-season, I'll call it,

for safety at the cemeteries.

And we had to send the guards back out there to enforce things.

Jeez.

How's your election going?

Well, I'm getting so many attacks online.

I must be the frontrunner.

We don't really do polling for these kind of things, city councils.

Well, you're Jewish, so I don't know if you're a frontrunner.

I mean, Jewish people tend to be a target now,

unfortunately.

And I'm sorry for that, but

you can't put anything into attacks, attacks, but at least you're over the target if they're attacking you.

Exactly.

I heard a good line from somebody that if you're getting heavy flack, you must be over the target.

And I think my message is really resonating because there's people from all over Seattle, from all sides of the political spectrum, saying they want to support me because enough is enough and things have just gone too crazy.

And that's the most unique thing to me is how united the citizens seem to be in wanting a change on the Seattle City Council and wanting to push back of these policies that enabled all this.

I will tell you that I was struck by KOMO News,

the way this was written.

I don't know how many times they asked the question, is this compassion?

And the documentary was, I thought, really well done

and kept asking the question for a Seattle with a way for them to hear is through the heart that

if you're doing these things because you think this is compassion, you're wrong.

You're sadly mistaken.

You are seeing people on the, you know, that are,

you know, elect, or the people who are electing officials, are you seeing elected officials at all waking up?

Is there any sign that anybody else that's already in office is waking up going, hey, guys, this doesn't work?

Not really.

It seems more like they're saying the things that people want to hear occasionally so that that way they may have a chance at re-election.

But it seems that the average citizen has said, I'm tired of being called non-compassionate when I'm trying to get people treatment for drug addiction.

I'm tired of being called non-compassionate when I'm trying to get people into shelters.

I'm tired of being called non-compassionate because I don't want people sleeping on the streets or in their cars.

And the citizens are tired of being told they're not compassionate.

Yeah.

All right.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

And good luck.

Hoffman.

Thank you for having me.

You bet, HoffmanforSeattle.com.

Don't know his politics, but if you want to check it out, HoffmanforSeattle.com.

I don't think if you're in Seattle, you care about the politics of the person.

You just want someone who's taking that issue seriously.

It doesn't seem like there's anyone there doing it.

You want someone who's going to take that on and actually be brave enough to stand up and say, hey, this is wrong.

I think that's what's happening all over the world.

People just, they just don't care.

And in Seattle, they're letting people out on the streets that are really, really sick and people that they know are going to commit more crimes.

I mean, I don't know if you saw, did you see in the documentary the story of the rapist?

I mean, you want to talk about real consequences?

Listen to this.

Police say that on July 20th of 2017, this man, Louis Arby III, 41 years old, removed the screen from a woman's window at an assisted living facility in SeaTac and crawled in.

The woman inside was brutalized for an hour.

She was raped and beaten and choked and robbed.

Police say Louis Arby also urinated on the floor.

Afterwards, police say he left through the same window he'd entered through.

The victim was treated for bleeding on the brain, a broken nose, and other injuries.

She was 71 years old.

Oh my gosh.

It was a shocking and disturbing crime, but perhaps we shouldn't have been all that surprised.

Just four days before the rape, just 96 hours before police say he scarred one woman's life forever, Louis Arby III was arrested here, sitting next to the fountain, right outside the King County Courthouse.

Police say he was selling methamphetamine.

That's him in the back of the squad car after the arrest.

He was booked and then released almost immediately.

Our criminal justice system decided that he shouldn't spend even 24 hours in jail.

But even a brief look at his record would have shown that Louis Arby had come from California, where he'd spent 19 years in prison for kidnapping, robbery, and carjacking.

And had prosecutors looked a little more closely, they'd have known that Arby was the only suspect in a case three months prior in which a woman was taken hostage, forcibly shot full of drugs, and viciously raped and beaten for 15 hours.

The King County Prosecutor's Office says, in this case, we had information that he had a 1995 California conviction for kidnap to commit robbery and other offenses.

The prosecutors assigned to the investigation had no knowledge of other pending investigation.

And so we are left with a question.

How is it that a man is arrested in front of a courthouse in possession of a deadly drug that destroys lives?

How is it that this man who has a long history of violence doesn't even spend 24 hours in jail?

How is it that he is sent right back onto the streets?

A compelling, compelling, and compassionate documentary that I think everybody should watch.

You can watch it.

I watched it on YouTube.

It's from KOMO-TV in Seattle, and it is called Seattle is Dying.

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You know, when you look at

the world today and where we're headed, there is a very clear, clear choice on a few things.

We used to be pretty clear on Israel,

but boy, things are, well, some people would say getting muddy, but they're becoming very black and white, and you got to see where you stand.

If you stand with the left, you stand with Bernie

in the town hall that he just did, he said, you know, it's a Benjamin Netanyahu and his party, that's a hate group.

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AOC, anti-Israel.

Ilan Omar, anti-Israel.

Rashida Tlaib, anti-Israel.

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And they are anti-Semitic, not pro-Palestinian, as much as anti-Semitic as well.

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On the other side, you have Donald Trump, who

has thrown a lot of shade to Benjamin Netanyahu and to Israel itself.

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Listen to this released yesterday.

I'm here on the beautiful Golan Heights.

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That's amazing.

That's amazing.

I mean, Trump has been amazing on the Israel stuff.

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Wrong on, really wrong on Israel.

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Yeah.

It's incredible.

I mean, you know, step by step this entire time, we're coming up on a year anniversary of him naming Jerusalem and opening the embassy in Jerusalem as the actual capital of the country that says it's the capital, which is usually how we judge what the capital is of a country.

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We've got a great special coming up on that.

It's one of these things where you kind of step back and think, wow, I mean, like all the presidents all these times, both Democrat and Republican, who have said that they would do the things that Donald Trump has gone ahead and actually done.

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It's been incredible.

Incredible.

I'm blown away by it.

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And so obviously are the people

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I mean, he has not only moved the

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God bless him.

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