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how to win the hearts and minds of people.

If we are going to beat socialism, we have to be better storytellers.

And I take a case of Ocasio-Cortez and something, a story that you probably heard

in two lines from your friends, and you joked about it, but you missed the real story and how to make that point.

And we'll give that to you right at the top of the podcast.

Also,

Bill O'Reilly's here.

Where is AOC Getting Her Money?

Her fairy godfather here in Texas, Will Witt, joins us.

The future of conservatism and the three things that he says are essential to build the left.

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This guy is an amazing guy.

He's kind of like a superhero because he's like the most positive person I've ever met in my entire life.

But he has a perspective on life that all of us

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It's hard to do, I think, as well as he does it.

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It's going to be on this feed this weekend, so look for it.

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so yesterday stu and i had quite a conversation kind of lasted almost the whole show uh going back and forth in total agreement but we we couldn't let it go

uh

we're in agreement but stu finds it really irritating that we have to do this.

And I suppose he's right, but it is part of human nature.

And that is, people need the story.

You need to connect to the heart.

And conservatives suck at the story.

And yesterday I was telling you, you know, all the liberals will be on stage putting a show together, and all of the conservatives will be running the theater.

And that's the way I actually want it because, you know,

I want people who are really focused on the facts and the numbers running the theater.

I don't want those bean counters.

I don't want a show done by accountants.

You know what I mean?

I don't.

And I don't want to work in a theater where the accounting job are done by a bunch of actors.

Even The Office, which was a show about accountants, had to be done by liberals.

So it's just the way the world is.

So if we want to talk to people, the best way to talk to people is through stories.

And we suck at telling stories.

And even when they are handed to us,

we screw it up.

Even when they're handed to us, what happens?

We don't tell the story.

And we miss the opportunity because we speak our language only to ourselves.

And we expect everyone else to adapt to our language.

Yeah, I think a lot of people, too, when they hear, well, we have to talk to the other side, think like, gang of eight, we need to have a compromise.

No, it's not about that.

It's the whole point of having these ideas and ideally, eventually, winning elections and implementing freedom for

people is you have to win people over who don't currently vote your way.

Now, here's why this is going to become increasingly important.

Socialism is on the rise.

Socialism, I'm telling you, if we go into a recession, a deep recession during the Trump administration, I have a feeling we may be looking at a real socialist in charge of this country and in charge of the House and the Senate.

We could be a socialist country that is moving away from the free market in 18 months.

And when people are panicked,

they're not going to listen to facts.

They're going to listen to, okay, he makes me feel better.

That makes me feel better.

We have to talk about the heart because people are going to be struggling much more than they are now whenever this happens.

And if we don't connect with people's hearts, we're going to look like bean counters and

we'll be talking stats and everything that counts.

But first, you have to have the story.

Then you move to facts.

You have to capture the heart first.

So the conservatives had a great opportunity to do this this week.

And we had it with Ocasio-Cortez's mother.

Now,

there was an article that was

written,

who was this by,

The Guardian, I think.

And it was a story that you probably heard about, and you did hear about it from me in this exact way when it first came out.

And that was, did you see the story about Ocasio-Cortez's mom?

Stu said, yeah, I did.

It's crazy, right?

That's exactly how I said it, too.

Right, yeah.

And I said, yeah, I mean, look,

how are these people so stupid?

She struggled her whole life.

Then she moved to Florida to get away from the $10,000 taxes that she was paying on her property every year.

What a hypocrite.

I mean, she'd be Ocasio Cortez, well, it's 70%.

She's moving because of $10,000.

This shows that you don't know what they're talking about.

And it felt good, didn't it, to have that conversation?

That's a point.

It is a very valid point that is worth making.

Right.

But if we want to expand our circles,

we need to be able to lead with the heart.

Now, this is an amazing story.

I went back and I read this story and I thought, this story

tells everything you need to know for our side.

This is not a story for the socialist.

This is a story for our side.

So let me give it to you.

Blanca is a woman who makes lasagna for visiting relatives and watches over her 78-year-old mother who suffers from pulmonary fibrosis and often breathes oxygen from a concentrator and a loud rescue mutt named Tammy.

It's a story about mothers, but it's also a story about daughters.

Because Blanca always believed in her daughter, believed her daughter would be important, and regardless of your opinion on Ocasio-Cortez, and believe me, you do have an opinion on her daughter, one way or another.

There's no denying the wholesomeness of this story of this family.

Now hear me out.

Her dad and I were preparing for Alexandria's birth, and we were picking names, Blanca told the reporter.

And he came up with Alexandria.

I thought about it for a while, and I thought, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

That's powerful.

Yeah,

that should be her name.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the infamous millennial Democratic socialist who represents New York's 14th district, covering the Bronx and Queens in the House of Representatives.

Her mother is Blanca Ocasio-Cortez.

Blanca married Sergio Ocasio in Puerto Rico and then moved to New York, and she knew very little English, but she learned.

She worked the jobs that nobody else wanted.

She mopped floors at night.

She drove school buses.

She answered phones.

She took orders.

I'm going to come back to that paragraph.

Now, by the way, this was written by our staff.

This is not the, this is not the staff, this is not the story from The Guardian.

In 1989, she gave birth to her first child, a girl,

in the Bronx, New York City.

Two years later, she gave birth to a boy.

Until Alexandria was five, the family lived in a one-bedroom condo in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx.

Theirs is the typical American struggle.

Sergio worked hard until he had his own business.

Then the small family pooled together their resources and took out a mortgage, and he moved into a small single-family house with a yard in nearby Yorktown Heights.

Blanca said, We had a great life there.

Alexandria was social.

She always had a bunch of girls over.

She took over the shed in the backyard.

She cleaned it up, put up curtains and photos, made it look nice.

It was like a clubhouse for her and her friends.

Blanca talks about her daughter in the way any good mother would, recalling her daughter.

Always talkative.

When I took her into pre-K interview, she didn't ever let me talk.

She kept going on and on and on about knowing the alphabet and being able to count.

In 2008, while Alexandria Cortez, Casio-Cortez, was a sophomore at Boston University, her father, Blanca's husband, died of lung cancer.

Overnight, Blanca had to become the breadwinner.

It was, I was cleaning houses in the morning and working as a secretary at a hospital in the afternoon.

It was difficult making ends meet.

At one point, I had to skip the mortgage payments and we almost lost the house.

This is a story about a single mom, a single mom who raised her family after her husband died of lung cancer.

As the Daily Mail notes, Sergio's death put the family into a tailspin.

He didn't have any life insurance.

He had two years of health care bills due to the money his business brought in had dried out.

Blanca recalls she faced foreclosure not just once but twice.

It was scary.

I had to take medicine.

I was so scared.

I had to stop paying for the mortgage for almost a year.

I kept expecting someone to knock on the door and to kick us out at any time.

There were even real estate people coming around to take photos of the house for when it was going to be auctioned.

The worst is I only had $50,000 left to pay on the loan.

But funny enough, it was the bank.

The bank, not the welfare office, not the government, or the local church that helped her.

It was the bank.

I prayed and I prayed

and I prayed that things would work out.

After the children graduated from college,

I figured it was time for me to move to Florida.

These days, Blanca lives in Florida, a lakefront community of about 16,000 people near Orlando.

She moved there just before Christmas in 2016.

She had been paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes in New York.

Now she pays $600 a year.

When she first got here, the world, her world was much different.

Her daughter was a bartender, hadn't filed paperwork.

I love privacy and calm, Blanca said.

I don't like the limelight for myself and my family, but it seems that God's played quite a joke on me with his politics stuff.

Now, I don't know if the Daily Mail was sent there to do a hatchet job or what.

But the story is tempting.

Taxes are so severe in New York that even a mother of the wild-eyed Democratic socialists representing that area can't even afford to live in the community.

But really, this is an amazing story of America.

It is a tragic story of a love lost and a family shaken apart due to illness, lung cancer.

It's a story of perhaps

the evils of smoking.

It's a hero story.

A hero story of a mom who came to America not speaking any English, but didn't rely and close up in her own community.

She struggled and she fought in an older age to be able to learn English and speak English and then immerse herself because she knew if she spoke English, her family would have an easier time and her family, who knows, her children could go on to be representatives, serve in the United States Congress

in one generation.

It's a sad story.

It's a sad story of the collapse of community if she felt alone and felt that there was no one in her community,

that her church didn't come.

She seems religious.

She prayed and she prayed and she prayed.

But it is, again, that hero story that in America, if you're willing to work, you can not only make it, but you can send your kids to a great college.

No matter how hard you struggle, if you're willing to sacrifice and work, you can send your kids to Boston University.

They can have a great education, not repeat your struggle.

It is a story of the American family that struggles every day, but finds joy in the struggle.

It's a story of the idyllic what we all dream of America being like.

That yes, we might have a small little house, but we've taken this old garage in the back and we've fixed it up and we've hung some curtains, and it is a place of imagination and joy for our children.

It's a story about

how the lie of mister Potter at the bank, who is just a greedy cigar-chomping monopoly guy,

who will take your home even though you only have $50,000 $50,000 left to pay for it?

You've struggled your whole life, then your husband dies.

A tragic story.

The evil capitalist comes in, swoops in, takes the money, takes the house, and destroys the family.

No, this is the Jimmy Stewart view of America, where the bank comes in, and the bank works it out because you only have 50,000 and you are working.

This is a great story.

A great story for every conservative to tell because, as I will show you in one minute, it has every piece of our argument in it.

So, listen to the Ocasio-Cortez story.

What we said to you earlier this week when this story came out was, can you believe it?

Look at this, what hypocrites!

Right?

We're not inviting anybody else to join our group.

If you don't agree with us, if you've read that story and you're like, I like this family, you're immediately turned off by the people who are like, What about you hypocrites?

Instead, engage with the story.

Tell the story, make the story yours.

We as conservatives have to learn how to tell a story.

Here is a couple that falls in love.

They are in Puerto Rico.

They moved to New York.

She knew very little English.

Okay, now we have, do we love immigrants or not?

Yes, we love the immigrants who want to be here.

She wanted to be here.

She wanted to be an American.

She wanted a better life for her children.

So what did she do?

She learned how to speak English.

She mopped floors at night.

She drove school buses.

She answered phones.

Nowhere in this story is her welfare story.

Nowhere in here is her complaining.

Nowhere.

She and her husband, they come here.

They live in a small one-bedroom apartment in New York.

I gotta believe it wasn't very nice.

But he says, we're in America now.

I I can build my own business.

And he builds a successful business.

He is an entrepreneur.

He starts his own business.

He doesn't wait for a guaranteed government job.

He has a dream.

And he comes here and he starts his own business.

Now, I don't know why he had lung cancer.

Maybe it was from smoking.

I don't know.

But he dies tragically.

And yes, he has bills that pile up because he's a small businessman.

Who in this audience who runs their own business cannot relate to that?

You're the last one to get the money.

Everybody else comes before you if you're a businessman.

So he tries to keep his business going while he's struggling with lung cancer.

The bills pile up.

Then he dies.

But before he dies,

they had built a life to where they could get out of that small little apartment and get a small little house.

And I mean, it is that house, if you've ever seen it,

it's a miracle on 34th Street.

Remember when she's like, stop the car, stop the car.

Oh, I knew if I just believed.

That's what Santa told me.

I believe, I believe, I believe.

That's the little

salt box house that they bought.

That's an American dream.

They bought it and they paid for it.

They got all the way to $50,000 away from paying that house off.

They were good people that worked hard.

And when he died, she continued.

But it was the bank, not the welfare office that swooped in.

Here's a woman who prays,

who was comforted by God, who is now taking her mother in and taking care of her family.

Not sending off to some government state institution, but bringing her into her home.

But because she wants to do all those things, she needs to move to Florida.

Because the government, who really in this story hasn't given her Jack,

accepts the opportunity to be an American.

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What's the story, Pat, that you heard earlier this week about Ocasio-Cortez's mom?

She fled New York because of high taxes and went to Florida.

Did you have any idea her story was like the story I just told?

No idea whatsoever.

Right.

None.

That little tidbit came from that story, and conservatives only took that piece of it.

It's a what a hypocrite.

Instead of looking at the entire story, it's legitimate.

It's totally legitimate.

For her, for at least

Alexandria.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

And her mom.

I don't know anything about her mom, if her mom shares socialist values, or I don't know any of that.

I don't have any idea.

Don't care if she does.

Her story is the story of America.

You're not going to Puerto Rico and having that story.

You're not going to Mexico and having that story.

Here's somebody who didn't even speak English.

She fought to speak English.

I mean, we would hear, I'm sure, from Alexandria the opposite, that she shouldn't be forced to do that.

But that's a, I mean, she did it to make her

life better for her family.

Right.

And in one generation, one

generation.

Her daughter's now in Congress.

No, no, not just in Congress.

She is the leading force in Congress.

Apparently, which is an amazing thing.

Amazing.

In one generation, God bless the USA.

Absolutely.

And for the bank to show mercy to people like you never hear that story.

No, you never hear that.

You always hear about evil bankers and how dastardly they are as capitalists.

$50,000 left on this house that was not worth $50,000.

It was a lot more.

So they had $50,000 left on this house.

And they could have foreclosed.

Did you say it was a year of her not paying?

Of her not paying.

And they were going to auction the house, everything else.

But in the end, she talked to the bank and the bank worked it out with her.

Amazing.

That's

incredible.

That's a great story.

And that is a story that you'll notice nowhere in that story is, and the government came down and shut down the evil bank.

No, the government in that story is charging her $10,000 a year in property tax, is taking her money, if she had enough, and taxing her.

Nowhere in here is the government swooping in to save the house.

Nowhere in here.

This is a story.

That was the typical American story.

That was the American dream.

That I could come here, I could build a business, I could do it my way, I could have a little, just a little plot of land, a little house where I could raise a happy family.

I could send my kids to a great university, and then I could retire and go someplace.

She's lived the American dream.

I remember talking, this happens so often on the left.

I remember talking about this years ago because, Pat, you read Barack Obama's autobiography

back in the day.

And I remember you making this point that that's a really incredible American story.

Yeah, incredible.

And if he would have, if he would have taken that from his story and, you know, and people talk about.

Well, he said that before.

He said it a couple of times that his life is a pretty charmed one.

If he would have done that in every speech, and lived it, if he actually lived what he said in his speech in 2006,

if he would have actually lived that,

if that was who he was at his core, but he wasn't.

He was a redistribution of wealth.

He was a pay-the-em-back for all of these problems.

He was vindictive in many ways.

That's what the core of his being.

He had some

resentment, and it was time for payback.

You sit in the back of the bus.

Somebody who really understands the American story knows that that quote that he did, you get in the back of the bus,

that is the exact opposite of what allowed him to become President of the United States.

With while we're fighting people called Brock in the Middle East, he becomes President of the United States.

And he does it with a crazy, crazy upbringing.

And he becomes the president.

And we were excited.

And we heard, not all of us were because of his policies, but we were excited that it broke the barrier of a black man.

And if he would have just

let that part and be a celebration and say, look,

if I can do it, anybody can do it.

Except that wasn't his attitude.

It wasn't his attitude.

He really took the opposite, which was like, you know, everyone's really racist.

When his own story sort of disproves it, people don't care.

People don't like people who lived in other countries.

They're foreign.

They're different.

Well, he lived in other countries.

He came back here and became president of the United States.

It's too rough with the name of the name of the name.

With the name of one of our enemies, Barack Hussein Obama.

And Hussein was the name of the guy we were fighting at the time.

And Obama was one letter away from another guy we were fighting.

I remember hearing that when he first started running, and someone made that observation: look, this country is no way they're going to elect a guy with those two names.

And there it is.

And we happened.

You know, a guy who they talk about.

He could have been transformative.

They talk about how life

could be transformative.

He was.

He was transformative.

In the wrong way.

Just for the way he chose to take those things.

I mean, you know, it was always about how life is too hard on people who don't have enough money.

And look, life is hard at times.

However, he was able, and his family was able, even though they had an unstable family for a large portion of his upbringing, he was able to overcome that, get into college, achieve all these things, eventually become president.

And he thinks the opposite.

He was never even on the American mainland until he was 19 years old.

He was in Hawaii and Indonesia the rest of his life.

So it's a pretty amazing story.

Broken family.

And I think this goes back to a central progressive belief.

Like Barack Obama, Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez, they are both very aware that these things can happen, right?

They've happened to them, but they think they are special.

Yeah, they're the same.

Those people,

they just happen to be lucky and great achievers, and they're amazing, but there's so many people who just can't do it like I can.

See, that is the exact opposite.

I mean, I have led a really charmed life.

I came from a broken family.

My mother committed suicide.

We had the same thing going on.

My childhood was: are we going to lose the family business?

My mother, we moved to a very, very inexpensive house and my mom struggled to make the payments on that.

I mean,

I lived that life.

And now look at me.

And I don't look at me and say, oh, yeah, it's

special.

I look at other people and like, you can do it.

You can do it.

Yeah.

You know, you may get to the end and go, I wish I wouldn't have done it, but you can do it.

That's true.

And it really is a fundamental way of seeing the world differently.

You know, the progressives just, they see it as, I was lucky because I'm special, but no one else can do it.

So I have to help them because I'm so wonderful.

And I'm the only one who can make these decisions appropriately for these people.

Where conservatives say, look, you know, because I mean, I know we've all said this, you know.

like we you know you feel lucky to be able to to be in a position where you're able to do a job that you love and and and and live a some comfortable life.

And we've all certainly married up all of these things that happen.

And it's like, I look at that always as like, gosh, I mean, how does this even happen?

Right.

Like you worked hard and you tried your best and you fell into a couple of good things and wonderful things happen because there's a lot of opportunity here and anybody can do it.

Right.

Like that's how I think conservatives look at the world.

And it's the exact opposite.

It's that, it's the shepherd and sheep or the sheep and the rancher thing you've pointed out a few times, where progressives just believe you have to be a rancher to control all the sheep.

And conservatives believe, you know, people can do these things on their own.

They're not, we're not sheep.

Yeah.

And they think, the ranchers think that anybody who says I can do it on their own is a wolf.

No, they're not.

They're not.

People aren't sheep.

There are wolves,

but the person who says I want to go do it on my own, it's just because they're not a sheep.

It doesn't make them a wolf.

Everybody has a chance to be a shepherd, a sheep, a rancher.

Go make your own way.

And everybody who does make their own way is looked at as the wolf now.

You're a bad person if you are successful.

I mean, the people who are successful and who have

achieved a lot like billionaires are now looked at as if they're immoral.

Well,

why?

How?

For those who, I mean,

I think you can make the case that some are.

I mean, you look back at some of everything is everything, right?

Oh, yeah, there are a lot of poor people that are immoral.

There are cops that are bad.

Majority, good.

There are homeless people that are bad.

Majority, good.

There's just, just, it's, it's, that's people.

That's people.

But we focus on the bad and we say, that's all of them.

And it's not all of them.

There are those bad ones.

And the problem with our system as we become more and more socialist is you get special deals.

Well, now the system is starting to be corrupted by the few bad because the few bad generally like to hang out where there's lots of power.

And so when you start to build this government with corrupt individuals, and

I put Facebook and

Google into that category, they are now spending more money than anybody else in lobbying on Capitol Hill.

But you don't hear about that.

You just hear about the evil Jews that do it.

Google spends more money on Capitol Hill than anyone else.

They are writing laws.

You don't hear about that.

You don't hear about that.

Why?

And this thing yesterday, if the Democrats don't wake up to how corrupt their party has become, and I don't mean corrupt in business or money alone, I mean corrupt with the hatred of Jews.

That make no mistake.

On Monday at 5 o'clock, we're doing an expose

of a couple of people in Congress and

their love for the Jewish people.

You know, they're from Somalia, and so they just don't know.

Well, they knew how to run for Congress.

They knew how to get elected.

They're not dummies.

How did they not know that we shouldn't say these things about Jewish people?

maybe then they're not smart enough or good enough to be in Congress.

We're going to show you how much they do know and their connections.

We're going back to the chalkboard on Monday.

And if Americans don't see this, Democrats, good Democrats that are just your average person in the middle of the country who loves America just as much as any conservative does, if they don't see that their party has jumped the shark and is now a socialist, not Sweden, an actual end of the free market socialist

party that

now is a breeding ground for Muslim anti-Jewish hatred,

you're going to lose your country.

You're going to lose your country.

And that country is worth saving for all of us.

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Bill O'Reilly writes, right at this second, four committees in the House of Representatives are thinking up more ways to investigate President Trump.

Instead of concentrating on solving vexing problems like a $22 trillion debt, a record trade deficit with China, or thousands of poor people trying to surge the southern border, these Democrats in the House are worried about things like Ivanka Trump getting security clearance from daddy, the liberal emergency.

Bill O'Reilly is here to talk a little bit more about it.

Hi, Bill.

Hey, you guys.

How are you doing?

Good.

So tell me about the liberal emergency.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

Okay, so it's the national emergency that Donald Trump declared on the southern border.

The far left has declared a national emergency as well.

But it's not the same.

Their national emergency is Donald Trump's president.

Okay, that's the national emergency for many in the Democratic Party and the far-left progressive movement.

So everything else, every other issue is subordinate to that.

We've got to get them out, no matter what it takes.

We don't have to be honest.

We don't have to be

insightful.

If people get hurt in the process, well, that's collateral damage because it's a national emergency.

Donald Trump's got to get out, and we're going to get them.

So that's where we are in this country.

So if you're expecting Congress over the next two years to solve any problems, they're not going to.

And as you pointed out, one of the you know, they can't even get one of their members, the Democratic Party, to say,

you know, maybe calling people who support Israel greedy money people,

that's not really very nice or accurate.

I'm sorry I said that.

Maybe that could happen.

No, no, no, no, no.

Uh-uh.

They're not even going to do that.

And they're not doing that because

they don't want to pull apart the coalition that is trying to get Donald Trump.

I mean, that was the word from Joy Behar on the view.

Why are are they doing this?

Why do they even have to talk about this?

They're separating themselves when our target is Donald Trump in 2020.

That's right.

But it's even a little bit more than that because Joy Behar doesn't have the intellect to really understand what's happening in the country.

It's a little bit more than that.

So you do have a genuine fissure in the Democratic Party.

And you're going to see that in the upcoming campaign when Biden gets in.

You're going going to see it.

That'll really crystallize it for everybody.

So there's a genuine fissure between the far left progressives who want socialism and green

whatever they want,

totally, totally remaking the country because they feel the country is bad, and the traditional Democrats, Pelosi,

the party apparatchniks, who basically just want power.

They don't want a big realignment of the country.

They just want to run the show.

So that fissure

is there and it's real.

And when these young women in Congress come forth and say these insane things,

the traditional Democrats go, oh, boy, this is going to make it even harder for us to obtain power.

So that's what's going on in that party.

Well,

Bill, doesn't there come a time like the Labor Party?

The Labor Party over in England has gone so far left.

They're run by a guy who has never taken the side of England on anything, stood with the USSR during the Cold War,

has never, ever stood with Great Britain.

Same kind of stuff we're facing here.

And he is radically anti-Semitic and in

negotiations and in cahoots, I should say, with Hezbollah and Hamas, wildly anti-Semitic.

And Labor Party members who are very left

have now, I think seven of them, have left the party and said, This is not the Labor Party.

This is becoming something entirely different.

Do you see that on the horizon at all?

Are there any Democrats who will raise the flag and say, look, this is not the Democratic Party?

No, I really don't see it because because they might think that,

but if they do that, the Twitter mob will descend on them

and tear them to pieces.

So you're saying that

British politicians have more courage than American politicians?

I can't generalize in that area, but I can tell you the fear among all politicians in this country and the United States is they're going to get torn apart on the the social media apparatus.

So

you have to understand that this permeates into everything.

Everything.

So no longer are you going to have profiles and courage.

You know, John F.

Kennedy wrote a book, Profiles and Courage.

That's gone.

Because if you stand up, if you're a Democrat in the House of Representatives and you stand up and you point fingers at the progressive movement and say, this is out of control, not only are they besmirching a great ally in Israel, but they're linking in to anybody who supports Israel that they're money hungry.

So this is out of control, and I, as a Democrat, are not going to tolerate it.

I'm not going to tolerate it.

Well, within 24 hours, your life is going to be

assaulted in a way that you cannot even imagine.

You cannot even imagine.

And these politicians, they don't want that.

None of them do.

And neither do the media people.

So if you're on television,

they haven't gotten a radio yet.

I figure that's coming, but they haven't got a radio.

It's mostly television.

If you're on television and you say what I just said,

they're coming out and sponsor boycotts.

They're going to find somebody to accuse you of something.

And everybody knows it now.

that this is it's an extortion that is never before seen in the United States.

And I'm telling people, I'm trying to be Paul Revere here, that you've got to understand this, the fear that has cloaked Washington, D.C., and honest media people.

How much outrage have you seen about these comments about Israel and Israeli supporters?

Well, I will.

I haven't seen much outrage from the powerful people in Washington.

No.

They mealy mouth it.

Yeah.

It's like Pelosi.

Pelosi yesterday goes, well, she didn't really mean it.

Yeah, she did.

Yes, she did.

Yeah.

I mean,

if you trace her whole history, she absolutely meant it.

But there's Pelosi.

Yeah, yeah, she didn't really mean it.

She doesn't understand the power of the words she says.

Just keep in mind what I'm saying to you.

Never before

in this country has there been such a threat to honest

reactions.

What do you mean, honest reactions?

So if you feel that something is wrong and you stand up and that goes against the Twitter mob, that goes against the progressive movement, they're going to try to destroy you.

Well, I mean, Bill.

Destroy you and your family.

Look, if you didn't get it from Brett Kavanaugh, and I'm not saying you, Glenn Back, you, Stu.

I'm saying you, the listeners.

If you didn't get it from Brett Kavanaugh, if you didn't get what the potential for harm is now,

then you'll never get it.

It is why, honestly, Bill, I have been trying so hard to

try to bring conservatives together, and

we have to stand together.

Even if we vehemently disagree with each other, we have to stay and stand together because they're going to pick us off one by one.

It's not conservatives.

It's not just anybody.

You've got to go into the precincts of the independents and precincts of fair-minded Americans.

I still believe, maybe I'm naive after all these years, that most Americans are fair-minded.

And that if they actually knew what was happening

on a true front basis, the Twitter mob, the progressive movement funded by tens of millions of dollars, combined with a corrupt media that basically wants to run the country.

These six media companies that control 90% of the national news flow want to run the country.

Jeff Bezos wants to run the United States.

They have all the money they want.

They can't buy any more stuff.

So what's left?

They want power.

They're down at six companies.

They want to run the country.

That's what you're seeing.

It's amazing to me that the Democrats say that they hate money in the system and

that

these PACs have too much money.

They're putting too much money into the system.

And look at Israel and how Israel is just pumping all this money and it's wrong and people should know about it.

The leading,

what do you call it?

Investment, I guess.

What do you call it, Stu?

The leading lobbyists, the people who are putting more money in lobbying than anybody else are people like Google.

And you don't hear anybody saying a word about Google or Amazon or anybody.

That's where they're actually writing laws.

Google is actually

writing bills.

And you don't hear anything about that.

They want the power.

They have...

the money, they have the technology, want the power.

But here's the best example that everybody can understand.

A congresswoman, congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, we learn, is now being run by a multi-millionaire out of Fort Worth, Texas, who pays all her bills, who financed her entire campaign, and is now being accused of funneling $850,000 out of that campaign into his private companies.

You know the story, correct?

Yes.

Well, I know some of it.

I didn't know.

I know about the funneling money.

I didn't know about the person right here in my own backyard.

This is the best of the Glen Beck program.

You know, we have a really hard time talking to people right now, talking to people who disagree with us, and our families are broken up, our friendships have been broken up.

And there is a podcast this weekend.

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I think you nailed it.

I think there's a lot of people that have awesome doctrine and lousy theology.

And this idea of it's easy to say to love your enemy until you have an enemy.

Until you have somebody that you feel disconnected.

I don't feel like I have enemies, but there's certainly people that are difficult for me to be around.

One of the realizations that I've had is that this idea of loving difficult people, that I'm one of them.

I'm actually among the difficult people in other people's lives.

And I'm trying to say, how could I

interact with people?

There's a, for some people in faith communities, they're familiar with a verse that talks about like being ready to make a defense for the hope that's within you.

And everybody wants to like grab their swords.

And they leave out the second half.

And it said to do with kindness and respect.

And I think there's something beautiful about that.

Like take Switzerland.

They're not mad at anybody, and I'm not mad at them.

Right.

So if you just walk around with a bobsled and a bar of chocolate, you can decide who you are.

And everybody's trying to decide what role am I playing in this.

And I think there's tremendous latitude in that.

But I just like the role of grace, the idea of when people have just been kind to me, even when I've been wrong, that they just care more about our relationship than they do about winning an argument about something.

And there's something really respectful.

What has helped me with the people that creep me out the most is to try to think of what is it that's driving this?

Like, what's the thing underneath the thing?

And oftentimes, it's just that they're really insecure.

Me too.

Like, how do you respond when you get insecure uh in a setting like how do you deal with that i get really funny i get like just i get so i start talking really fast and i get funnier and funnier than other people get mean as a rattlesnake so how do you deal with your feelings

you get quiet and reserved you go turtle on that like head legs tail, everything inside.

And so that, even in our relationships that matter the most to us, to just say, how do you deal with that?

And to say, how are we like

going to react to people?

You know what I wear?

I'm mootering.

Remember those things during the 70s?

My wife's got one too.

And there's something actually beautiful.

What we do is we talk about how we feel more than what we want.

It would be an interesting experiment.

Try that for a week, to take the people that you love the most and say, don't say, I want a hamburger.

Say, I'm feeling hungry.

If we could get in touch with how we're feeling about something, I'm not a touchy-feely guy, but that has been so helpful in my relationships to just talk about, I'm feeling really insecure right now.

I know this sounds like, you know, California crap,

but he is,

he is,

he's so grounded and so successful.

When you hear his story, he's wildly successful

and grounded.

And I believe he has the answers.

If we are going to make it this next step, this is an important podcast.

Here he is on having picky conversations.

Listen to this.

I've never lost a case.

And it's not because I'm an awesome lawyer.

I'm an awesome picker.

I only pick cases.

I'm not an awesome picker.

Picker.

Yeah, I don't lose.

I only take cases that nobody could lose.

And so there's one of these things that just be a little bit pickier about the conversations that you're having with people.

And when you see this, say, like, you know what, I wouldn't trade our friendship for the trajectory of this.

And you don't have to work for NASA to know the trajectory of where this is going.

Say, that wouldn't be worth it.

You'll know that I'm disinterested when I start talking about sports.

Me too.

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And I'm not a Red Sox fan, never even gone to a game.

But my neighbor, Carol, was a huge Red Sox fan.

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I told her, Carol, I'll wear your Red Sox hat for the rest of my life and represent the socks here on earth.

But in exchange, every time Jesus walks by you, you need to mention my name.

There's a verse that said, I knew you not.

I'm like, Carol.

But here's the deal.

When I go through New York, people hiss at me.

And they just be like, because they're rooting for the other team, evidently.

And if they knew that I was wearing my dead neighbor's hat, they would just actually have a different angle on that thing.

And I don't stop people to tell them the backstory, but I think if I could just assume in people that I don't understand, there's probably mountains of stuff going on there that I don't know about.

Bob Goff

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The best of the Glen Beck program.

Will Witt is a social media influencer.

He's with PragerU.

He's a guy who knows his own mind and is now on a speaking tour talking about the three ways to beat the left.

Welcome to the program.

Thank you for having me.

I love being here.

So, how old are you?

I'm 22.

So, I'd be graduating as a senior in college right now if I would have stayed in.

How are you not a monster?

Seriously.

I mean, I watched you at C-PAC.

You're like Brad Pitt.

You're walking around and all the girls are like, oh, Will is so great and he's so smart.

I just love it.

I'd be a monster if I were you at 22.

Yeah, it's tough, but

it's hard sometimes.

But,

you know, Dennis has been such a huge mentor to me and has taught me so much that, I mean, that's why I work for Gregor Yu specifically, because of Dennis and his teachings to me has made me not a monster.

And he's wonderful.

You are lucky to have

that as a mentor.

He is a remarkable man

and has made such a huge difference

in our country.

So you're traveling now.

Are you speaking on campuses?

Yes, so I'm speaking at campuses.

I'm speaking at events.

Just last night, I was in McAllen, Texas, speaking at the Lincoln Reagan Day dinner down there.

That was a fantastic event.

I've never been down there that close to the border.

It's great that there are so many Republicans there.

It's fantastic.

And you're talking about three ways to beat the left.

Yeah.

What are they?

So the first one is that we have to convince liberals that they're our friends.

The left has duped liberals into believing there's a difference between left and liberals.

You can't use those terms synonymously.

Yes.

And that liberals need to be convinced that conservatives share the same values as them.

They believe in the values of America.

They believe in the Constitution, freedom of speech, the Second Amendment.

They don't like socialism.

The only difference really between liberals and conservatives in a lot of ways is that liberals believe in bigger government.

But they've been duped by the left to to believe that leftists are their friends, and the leftists don't stand for any values that America was founded on.

And so, we have to convince liberals that they are with conservatives.

Liberals used to fight for

the Bill of Rights.

And

they were radicals on those things, which was good.

A few weeks ago, I was painting this painting over here, which is

big government in bed with big tech and big social media and and as i as painting that i thought i can't believe glenn beck is the one painting that that should be coming from the left right and and they don't see it they're they are actually promoting those things right and the liberals who who should believe this are blind to it right now.

Right.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

No, they've completely changed.

Right.

The left is so out of touch with America and what the common people want that they, I mean, their main mission is to destroy America.

That's what they want.

They are for socialism.

They are against freedom of speech.

They want to silence you if you disagree with them.

These are not the values that classical liberals have ever stood on.

They'll tell you that socialism, oh, stop using that and trying to scare people.

We don't want scary socialism.

We want Swedish socialism.

That's what they always say.

But now these people like Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, they used to have to hide that they were socialists, right?

Now it's just they say proudly that they're socialists, and they say democratic socialists, like that makes it better.

It's ridiculous that we have people in Congress and in our country that proudly support these ideas.

But they've wanted to for a long time.

When I was at Fox, I said, because I was getting heat, because calling somebody a socialist apparently was...

You're a racist for doing that.

And they were calling me a racist.

And I said this, and in a way, I was trying to call them out because they want to tell you who they are.

You know, they really want to, they're proud that they are socialist, and yeah, that's right.

And you know what?

There will be a few people that'll have to go, you know, they want to do it.

And I said, Look, this is who they are, and and right now they're saying this, but there's going to come a time when the masks will come off and they'll just say, You're right, because you know what?

This free market system doesn't work, and that's right.

If you, if that's what, if that's uh uh what a socialist is then i'm proudly that that's exactly what they're saying now right and i think it's funny that these same people like ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders elon omar they claim that they love america like when at the state of the union when trump is chanting usa they're chanting back usa usa but that it it doesn't make any sense because you can't say you love america but you want to radically transform it you know dennis always talks about how if you have a wife you don't love your wife if you want to radically transform her Right.

And so it's the exact same thing.

These people don't love America.

They want to radically transform it.

Yeah.

I used to talk about how when Barack Obama said we want fundamental transformation.

No, if you have the Mona Lisa and you respect it, you restore it,

you don't fundamentally transform it.

Right.

And the new Green Deal, I don't think they're even serious about.

I mean,

I'm sure there many are, but I think the people in Congress are not necessarily so serious about the Green New Deal being green because the part that disturbs me in that bill, the one that actually was being presented, not the, you know, not the Ocasio-Cortez thing,

talks about the fundamental transformation of America's economic system.

Right.

That's what they care about.

The whole green thing is a cover to get you to go in and fundamentally transform it and take away the free market.

Right.

Well, I just tweeted about this this morning, is that there was an article from 1989 from AP News where they talked about, yeah, by 2000, entire nations were going to be destroyed by global warming.

Right.

Right.

And now it's 2019 and that's, of course, never happened.

Ocasio-Cortez says 12 years, it's a front for votes and for creating hysteria to get you to their side.

And they want to say that conservatives, Republicans are so anti-environment, and they don't care about if SEALs are dying, you know, these sorts of tropes.

And that's so that they can win over votes, make us look bad because we don't care about something that is really a false narrative.

Of course, the climate is changing, but not in any sense that these people are professing.

I grew up in the 70s, and I remember when I was about your age, the joke was,

Where's the ice age?

Yeah, exactly.

You know, and they were saying at the time, this was in Time magazine, we have to put soot, black soot, on the polar caps to melt them, to draw the heat in from the sun to melt them, because we're all going to be living under ice.

It's amazing.

It's crazy.

You know, approximately 75 years before Will was born, there was a movie called The Money Pit that came out with Tom Hanks and Shelly Long.

And it happened to be on like HBO or something there and I remember watching it.

And one of the recurring jokes throughout is, you know, this is a house that's like all, you know, it's a disaster to try to fix up.

And they're trying to get all these contractors to come over.

And every time they ask how long whatever project it is is going to take to finish, they always just say, Two weeks.

And then three months later, they come back, how much longer?

Two weeks.

And it happens over and over and over again.

That is the global warming argument.

It's always 10 or 12 years from any point.

From now, it's 10 or 12 years in the future.

From 10 or 12 years ago, it was 10 or 12 years into the future, which is today.

30 years ago, they said 10 or 12 years ago, there was a turning point.

They are never held accountable for these promises, they say, of doom that are coming our way.

And if they get their way,

then it will be systematic.

Then it will be, well, because of what we did,

we've postponed it another 10 or 12 years.

But we've got to take this next step.

Well, you have to realize this is our World War II, okay?

This is our World War II.

Yeah, how are we fighting against?

How insulting is that?

Oh, my God.

I can't believe that she was even, that that would even cross someone's mind to say.

I mean,

people that fought and died in World War II.

And we're like, yeah, you know what?

And

I'm going to tweet that we should all have a 70% tax because

that's my World War II.

Wow.

World War II actually ended in some vaporization of people.

Exactly.

Getting people to shop at Whole Foods is much different

than World War II.

Our World War II is 0.9 degrees centigrade.

Really?

That's your World War II?

It's not even a full Celsius degree?

It's just incredible.

It's astonishing.

I was in West Hollywood a little while ago.

I'm sorry for that.

Yeah, I know.

Well, I live in Hollywood myself.

I'm sorry for that.

Yeah.

Well, no, I like it because

I like to be in places where there are people who disagree with me.

That's how I do it.

I want to tell you something.

Yes.

I have

had a better life in Texas, but I am not as sharp.

as when I lived in Manhattan.

Right.

Because when you're living and you're the only person within a three-block radius that believes what you believe, you have to always be on your toes.

Right.

And there is something to be said for that.

Right.

Yeah.

No, I'll tell you a story.

I was actually, I was out, this was a few months or about a month and a half ago, two months ago.

And I'm out, and I meet this girl, and we're talking, and it's a lot of fun.

And then I show her my social media.

She's like, okay, I got to go.

Like, let's go out some other time.

I show her my social media.

And the first thing on there, it's a picture of me with some guns.

And then she tells me, she says, oh, F off, and then leaves.

And it's like, this is the tolerant left of I've made girls cry when I tell them who I voted for all the time in LA.

So really, it's breaking hearts, breaking hearts, breaking hearts in LA.

Ruining their dreams.

Yeah, I love it.

He was so good looking, and then he turned into the devil.

Yeah, I didn't know he was Hitler reincarnated.

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