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Now, his aides are saying he has a couple of things he wants to do as part of this presidential campaign.

One, he's got to go to potty a lot.

He's got to go to the potty.

Well, unless the adult diapers are freshly changed.

Well,

that's not even nice to joke about that.

What do you mean?

Well, someday you'll be wearing adult diapers, and will you be joking about that?

I didn't make one even hint at a joke.

You said he had to go potty, and I said he was ages to go to potty.

I thought it was ageism.

If you have an adult diaper, the potty is not necessarily a trip you need to make as a.

Okay, all right.

That's all.

Okay, he wants to do Medicare for all.

Medicare for all.

Now, again, I point this out.

Every single candidate in this race wants to do Medicare for All.

Not the case quite recently.

In fact, you might think to yourself, wasn't Barack Obama a progressive liberal president?

Well, when he was president, Bernie Sanders introduced Medicare for all and got zero co-sponsors.

Zero.

He was the only one interested in doing Medicare for All publicly in 2013.

Sure.

For the rest, it was Marxist nonsense.

They're not going for that.

They're never going to go for that.

How dare you even suggest that, you racist?

Medicare for all, which means we get rid of all

private insurance.

So you don't have your.

There's a couple different spins on it.

There's the one, Kamala Harris talked about getting rid of all private insurance.

Some candidates are supporting a version like Medicare for All where it would just be available to everyone.

Sure.

Okay, so it's like France.

Everybody has Medicare in France or whatever they call it over there.

Oh, you're sick, you get this.

But everybody also gets to, on top of the high taxes, they also get to buy insurance to cover for the stuff that Medicare for All doesn't cover.

So it's a double blessing.

It is a blessing.

I think that's the right word for it.

And we should say that it is important for Medicare for All to happen to cure our horrible health care system, currently known as Obamacare.

The last thing they told us was going to cure our horrible health care system.

Remember, it hasn't been repealed.

It's still in effect.

The thing they're all running against is the thing they all told us was the cure last time.

Remember that when

they start listing all the problems, because what they're going to say is, well, Trump has gutted it.

I mean, look, the only thing really, we've seen a couple of regulation changes.

The biggest thing being that they zeroed out the penalty if you don't have health insurance, which I like, I'm a fan of.

However, the problem with the way they did it was they just zeroed out the penalty, but the penalty is still there.

So the next, you know, next time the Democrats have control, they can just non-zero out the president, the

penalty.

They didn't get rid of the mandate.

They just zeroed the penalty.

So in theory, what you're supposed to do is actually have health insurance.

If you don't, you have to pay a, you're against the law, but you have to pay a $0 penalty.

It's a weird way they did it, and it's going to go away as soon as Democrats get control.

So, basically, we're in Obamacare, and that's what they're complaining about.

Got it.

Next up, Green New Deal.

Green New Deal.

Yes, they.

All of it.

Green New Deal.

Green New Deal.

So, Medicare for all and the Green New Deal.

Now, the Green New Deal, obviously, you've probably seen the FAQ that was posted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's team, which said things like, everyone gets a job even if they're unwilling to work, because they get paid basically universal basic income.

That is not necessarily what he's saying here.

He's saying the proposed bill that the resolution that went through, and the resolution basically says every green dream you've ever heard of from Democrats,

it's not, but it doesn't say some of the things that were in that FAQ, to be clear.

$15 minimum wage.

$15 minimum wage countrywide.

Yep.

So if you live in New York, it's still not a livable wage.

If you live in, you know,

outback Wisconsin, it's sweet living.

Sure.

You can't, no business can run

if they give less than $15 as a minimum wage, which, of course, as we've seen in even high-price areas like Seattle has destroyed industries

and destroyed really profitable and

Criminal justice reform.

Now, we just passed criminal justice reform, but if you listen to the people who wanted criminal justice reform, they were very clear this was just a first step.

I believe the act was called the First Step Act.

So there's plenty more to come.

I think the end game here is: if you haven't committed a crime, you go to prison.

If you have committed a crime,

you're set free.

They're just going to reverse the walls.

Well, it's going to be like Superman in Superman 2, where he reverses, he goes inside the little protective thing and reverses

the kryptonite to the outside

so that Zod gets hit with it.

It's just like that.

That's criminal justice reform of the future.

I like this.

I like this.

And now with all of the

big state regulation, we're all criminals and we've all committed a crime.

We just don't know it yet.

Yes.

So we might as well all go to prison.

Sure.

Let's make it fun.

Number five.

Free college.

Free college.

Yes, that's always fun.

Now, of course, we've seen the cost of that

is pretty high.

It's going to get even better.

Once the government is involved, it's going to get better.

Don't you think?

Oh, I mean, think about it this way.

Think about it this way.

And they are already heavily involved, by the way.

Yeah.

If you think about it this way, where

you've got a college system that would be run by the U.S.

government.

And you're expecting that college to teach the Constitution and to teach the founding documents, which says you should be very skeptical of the government.

You shouldn't trust the government.

You shouldn't give the government more power.

Of course, the people who are paying for that, they want that stuff taught.

Right.

They want that stuff taught.

Yeah.

Okay.

So that's going to be good.

It's going to work out well.

So free college, again, the reason why the cost of college is so high is because the government is involved on the loan side, guaranteeing very low-cost loans to people that they run up and then theoretically try to pay back for the rest of their lives.

Theoretically.

Theoretically.

Breaking up the biggest banks.

Breaking up banks.

Yes.

Now, surely there will be a cost to that as well.

And, of course, there will also be massive

problems with the government invading into private business.

There's not.

No, there's not.

These guys who are running the banks, you know, the five biggest banks in the world,

there is absolutely no power there.

There's no power to do anything or fight back in government.

You know, it's like Google.

What is Google going to do if they're like, hey, you're going to stop doing these things?

What?

Are they going to

track politicians and find out all their dirty secrets and threaten to expose them?

No.

Google doesn't do that kind of stuff.

No.

And big banks and, you know, global economies running on the backs of these banks.

There's no one in the world that has incentive or enough power to hurt a socialist federal government from stopping the banks and breaking them up.

There's no one.

No one.

No one.

No one.

Okay, next up is gender pay equity.

Now, interesting thing about gender is I think it's the most simultaneously the most important thing in the world and also the least important thing in the world.

Yes.

Yes.

You're not supposed to notice anybody's gender, but also if you miss no

notice the wrong gender, it's basically like Holocaust denial.

It's like the worst sort of speech you can have.

Holocaust, what is that?

There you go.

That might be on the plan here somewhere, but I don't think so.

But gender pay equity, again,

I guess you're going for an equal pay amendment to do that, which is obviously.

Which is ridiculous because all of the.

Never mind.

Go ahead.

He wants to lower drug prices.

Now, Elizabeth Warren had a way to lower drug prices.

She's already proposed.

We don't know exactly how Bernie wants to do this yet, but hers was that the government would actually own factories that made pills.

And

the pills would go to the peak.

Of course, that's what the socialist does, is they control production.

That is what the socialist does.

That's true.

So I would assume Bernie's either there or close to there.

Well, you're going to mandate that you can't charge Americans

more than what you charge people in Ethiopia, which I think is perfectly fair for a progressive to say.

You know, that makes total progressive sense.

Because, for instance, the progressive income tax, okay?

You know, you would never charge people.

You'd never charge people different amounts if they were rich, and especially the richest 1%.

You don't charge them different amounts, you charge everybody exactly the same.

And so that's what they're suggesting now.

Seeing that we are the richest 1%, even the poorest among us are the richest 1% of the world.

We can't charge Americans the richest 1%

more for their drugs.

We have to charge the same price that we charge in Ethiopia.

You know who really benefits from this?

Ethiopians.

Because certainly a company that needs to make money and needs to pay for their business, like a pharmaceutical company, is going to just take, let's say they're charging Ethiopia $1, they're charging us $10.

They're just going to lower it all to $1.

Surely they're not going to start charging Ethiopia and us $7.

So then Ethiopians can't get access to drugs.

That's a good policy.

I really think they should go ahead with that because who needs the Ethiopians?

They're just a country way over there.

Who cares about people?

Global warming.

Oh, yeah.

They're all going to get killed by global warming anyway, I guess.

Well, no, they're contributing to global warming.

We can't let them

develop, right?

We can't let them develop.

How many times have we heard that seriously?

That's not, you know.

I know.

Number nine.

Expand Social Security.

You see, Social Security has been such a huge success and is always able to pay for it.

Now, sir, sure, 90% of people who go into Social Security get more money out of it than they put into it.

But let's expand it because it's been working so well so far and it has only caused just a giant chunk of our multiple trillion dollar debt.

Don't worry about it.

Our future liabilities, we're up at about $100 trillion right now.

Huge chunk of that is Social Security.

Don't worry about it.

Let's expand it.

Yeah, our unfunded liabilities are more than that.

More than $100 trillion now.

I mean, it just depends on what timeline you're giving it.

The bottom line is it's negative every year, so we could go a thousand years in the future and make that number as big as you want.

Go to usdebtclock.

I think it's org, and tell me our debt and our unfunded liabilities.

Should we take a break?

We have a few more.

Oh, we have more?

Yeah, oh, yeah.

We still have, let's see, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten more things.

Holy cow, this is quite, and it's cheap, too.

That's a good thing.

For the richest country in the world, this is cheap.

Why aren't we doing these things?

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Our unfunded liabilities, $122 trillion.

So that was only off by $22 trillion.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's no big deal.

Well, it isn't.

It isn't.

And you're just calling me out for no reason on that one.

Next up in the Bernie Sanders plan for America, save unions.

Save

people are clamoring.

I assume this isn't a religious thing.

He is

saved unions.

AFL-CIO, put your hands on the radio retina.

Teamsters of America, you are saved.

Yeah, he wants to save unions, which I, again, we don't know exactly what that means or what that would cost.

It could very well cause some sort of government matching type of situation.

Also, could be attempting to reverse the recent Supreme Court ruling in some way.

We'll see where that one goes.

Can I interrupt here for a second?

I have to tell you, last night I was doing homework with my son, and

he is now currently in the progressive era.

So he's in the progressive era, and he said, this is honestly what he said.

Hey, dad, I need to make some 3D objects.

And I said, okay.

He said, for history.

And I said, oh, okay.

Sure.

What do you need?

What are you going to do?

And he said, well, I want to build a bomb.

I said, excuse me?

He said, I'm studying

Sacco and Vicente.

Or Sacco and is it?

No, it's Van Chente.

I can't remember the guy's name.

The two guys in the progressive era that, you know, were

robbers that took money so they could take the money and give it to all of the anarchists to build bombs.

That's the Red Square of 19 or Red Scare of 1920.

So last night, I find myself helping my son do research on

how they made the bombs back then and then make a facsimile of that bomb with the string running inside and everything else.

Then he had to make three.

And I said,

okay, so what's the next one?

He said, well, I want to do it on propaganda and how propaganda changed the world.

And I said, oh.

And I told him the story of Edward Bernays and the cigarettes and what he did with the ladies as they were trying to get the vote and hike up their dresses in the parade.

Do you remember that?

Yep.

And they would hike up their dresses and in their garter they would have cigarettes women didn't smoke because it was a phallic symbol.

And so he said,

I'm going to have the right where the judges are.

I'm going to have all the reporters there.

What I want you to do is, as you're going for women's suffrage, I want you to stop and I want you to hike up your dress and in your garter, I want to, you're going to have a cigarette and a match, and you're going to light it.

You're going to put it in your mouth, and then you're going to light it, and then you're going to hold that up like the torch of the Statue of Liberty.

He killed two birds with one stone.

He was working for a tobacco company, but he was also working for the women's suffrage movement and how it changed.

So I built a bomb with my son, and then I talked to him about the

phallic symbol of the cigarette and

the women hiking up their skirts.

Women hiking up their skirts.

And so he went in and he said, hey, mom, I need a garter belt.

And my wife said,

excuse me?

And

he said, I need a garter belt.

And she said, well, I don't happen to have one.

uh son and uh she said what are you two doing

And so he explained to her.

And she said, Oh,

I think you can get those at Hobby Lobby.

Last night was a, I was living in a world I didn't even understand.

Hobby Lobby's.

Hobby Lobby?

When did Hobby Lobby start to carry that?

I don't know.

She said she thought that they might be in like a marriage aisle or a wedding aisle or something like that.

I'm like, okay.

I officially, I'm making bombs with my son and buying,

you know, sexual things at Hobby Lobby.

World makes sense.

That does make a lot of sense.

I actually think your kids are going to be really bad at history.

What?

I actually, I was thinking about this the other day.

Your career has basically been made at finding these little nuggets of history that nobody knows and they don't teach in school.

So unless the person teaching happens to be

a fan of your show,

the whole point of these shows being successful was that the history teachers weren't teaching it.

So when you pull out these little stories from history,

unless they go and check them all, which you know they're not going to do.

Which, if he gets, because I will check it, if he gets a mark down on that history,

oh, we're going to have a little talk with the history.

You didn't make that really?

Because here are all the footnotes.

Here's where you can find it.

What part is not accurate?

I'm on 9

history teachers' worst nightmare.

I drilled him last night, man.

He knows it.

Nice.

He knows it.

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America's March to Socialism continues.

The fundamental transformation of America, where we've got Medicare for All, this is Bernie Sanders' new platform, Medicare for All, Green New Deal, $15 minimum wage, criminal justice reform, part dieux, free college, breaking up the banks, gender pay equality, lower drug prices, expanding social security, and the all-important save unions.

We're only halfway there.

Pat Gray joins us now from the the Pat Gray Radio Extravaganza

and Puppet Show.

It's great.

You don't want to miss it.

Now with Puppets.

And some of them are brand new.

Really?

Yeah.

It's weird that you called it the Puppet Show and previously did not have puppets.

No, it's radio.

Nobody knew.

Oh, yeah.

But now

there's actual puppets.

Yeah, now he really believes in this, and he wants to make sure that his actions are backing up that promise.

He has real felt puppets.

Nice.

It's like

when an organic food contains

real flavors instead of artificial.

That's kind of what the actual puppets are.

Yeah.

Okay.

Anyway, it's important.

So go ahead.

Do you have a Bernie Sanders puppet yet?

Yes.

Yeah, I just added it today.

Paid leave.

Paid leave.

Now, we assume that has something to do.

Now that's governmental paid leave?

Yes.

You're going to demand that the corporations provide paid leave.

We don't know the actual details of that, but we do remember that this cost, you know, multiple billions of dollars per year.

You know, some of these do have some support across.

Do you know that there's companies already offering paid leave to the husbands, to the fathers?

I was in Utah a couple of weeks ago, and

my son-in-law's brother was on paid leave because they just had a baby.

Five

months

for the father.

Five months.

Paid leave.

But I mean, that's a corporation for choosing to do that.

I'm stuffing one of the kids back into Tanya.

Right?

Pulling him out.

I said I'd be a bad one.

Every six months.

Look, we got another one.

I'd have a baby a year at that rate.

I'd have two babies a year.

I'd be for polygamy so I could have two babies a year.

So

that

plan has been scored as well.

I mean, we've talked about some of these.

Really, he's starting at the $32 trillion.

Everything in that $32 trillion estimate that came out a few months ago is in this plan, and there's a lot more.

I will say, though, you know, you have some of these that have support across party lines.

Like, you know, Donald Trump obviously supported the criminal justice reform.

He just signed that in.

He's also talked about breaking up the banks.

He's talked about paid leave.

He's talked about lowering the drug prices and also expanding Social Security.

Obviously, the plans are different on how to get there, but some of these things will, I think, score fairly well with

the population until they find out the cost of them.

And that's when it comes to the.

Breaking up the banks is something that we should have gone this direction after 2008.

Instead, the Democrats and

Barack Obama and even George Bush decided to consolidate power and made the banks even bigger.

Remember the whole thing of it's too big to fail.

This is a problem.

Let's make them bigger.

Well, how about we make them smaller?

And so we've just made this.

So we should be going in that direction, but what does that mean for Bernie Sanders, a socialist?

Something that's not good.

Right.

Dream Act and going into effect if Bernie Sanders gets his way.

Obviously.

Universal background checks for your guns.

An assault weapons ban, which is an amazing one they keep asking for, purely because

they did it already and it didn't work.

Like, that's such a strange one.

No, it's a new idea.

It's a new idea.

They just didn't do it right.

It was in effect for 10 years and it showed no advantage whatsoever.

It did not stop any murders.

It didn't work.

Yeah.

But, okay.

Affordable housing.

Affordable housing.

What does that mean?

I mean, I'm surprised not to see the word free before housing, but affordable housing, I guess if you have no money, would be free.

We don't know how much that's going to cost.

Again, these are just outlines.

Broad strokes.

Broad strokes from birds.

Number 16.

New infrastructure.

I am so sick of infrastructure.

I am sick of it as well.

I don't even know what the infrastructure is that we bought with the trillion dollars and what we're buying this time with another.

10 years ago that we bought.

10 years ago.

We we bought infrastructure for $780 billion, biggest bill ever in our lifetimes at the time.

Now we've got, what, $1.30?

$3 billion?

Yeah, I know Trump proposed, I think, $1.5 during the campaign.

Obviously, Democrats want to go to more.

They want more than that.

Well, if infrastructure includes rebuilding every or retrofitting every home and every building in America, it could get even more extensive.

I just want to know what it is.

Well, consider I'm sick and tired of,

you know,

we need infrastructure

worked on and we need

a new infrastructure bill.

Well, how do you get to work?

Didn't you notice all the crumbling bridges?

Yeah.

No, I sideways.

I just, I, I, strange, there's a lot of new, brand new, spanking new bridges in our area.

I mean, I know Texas has had a good economy for a while, so,

but man, they seem to be able to build them.

Yeah, they seem to have no problem with it.

Uh, with, by the way, no state income tax, which you point out.

Uh, somehow Texas is constantly building new roads and everything else with no state income taxes.

It's a miracle.

But new infrastructure, you know, you're, again, probably

looking at a couple of trillion dollars extra.

And I will say, we already said the new Green Deal as part of this, which, as you point out, Pat, had a retrofitting of every structure, at least in the notes about the bill, which would cost more than $32 trillion by itself if they actually did it.

Opposing the military-industrial complex.

Now,

I don't know that that actually costs anything for to oppose it.

Well, supposedly, he's going to make dramatic cuts to the U.S.

military.

Well, that'd be like a smart thing to do.

Yeah, that'd be the smart thing to do.

Yeah, you need to.

We need to spend about $1.50 on that.

Because we are not, honestly, we are not headed towards war.

No, not at all.

No, the world is fine.

What are you, a conspiracy theorist where you think Russia is a problem?

China?

Come on, China.

Middle East.

The 1980s called They Want Their Foreign Policy.

That's a good one.

Oh, God.

Man,

I nailed him on that one.

Legalizing weed.

Yeah, that's an important one.

Legalize it.

So that one's, that one, I think that's going to happen

very soon.

I mean,

it doesn't make sense that

it is legal in states and illegal by feds.

I mean, make a decision one way or another.

Next Democratic president that has any control will get that done.

And I think, honestly, a lot of Republican presidents, if Trump were to decide not to run and some other Republican won, I think there's a good chance even a Republican

has left the barn.

I do too.

And the polling is now, it's just like the And quite honestly, I just don't think it's worth fighting.

It's just like, whatever.

Yeah.

Well, and I think honestly,

the federal government shouldn't be involved in that anyway, in my opinion.

So marijuana was only made illegal because prohibition ended, and they had all these ATF people,

and they were drug enforcement,

the

drug enforcement or the alcohol prohibition enforcement team.

And so when that went away, of course, the government didn't shrink again.

So they made them the ATF.

And that's when they said, oh, and you know what?

That bad marijuana, we ought to get that.

It was just, it was a job creation bill or a job, uh,

a job saving bill for jobs in the federal government.

And it's basically legal in half the states right now, anyway.

Every, you know, every election, a few more states pass it.

But

abolishing private prisons.

Now, that would be an interesting one because that would definitely cost a considerable amount of money.

Some people do think of that as a priority, the idea being that these evil capitalist companies are trying to get more people in prison just to pay their bills.

Well, I will tell you this.

It really makes an awful lot of sense.

When you abolish private prisons, that takes away anyone you can run to.

So, in other words,

if it's run by the government, You can't go to the government and say, look at the abuses happening here because they are the police.

They don't care.

They don't care.

They're not going to change it.

I mean, that's the one thing I don't understand.

How do you think that things are not going to get out of hand and be really, really nasty when

you're asking for the

socializing of all of these corporations and all of these things?

You take drugs over?

Who do you think is going to watch the quality of the drugs?

The FDA is going to find themselves?

You really think that they're going to care?

No.

They make a mistake.

They kill a bunch of people.

What are they going to do?

Be put out of business?

Of course not.

It's the government.

I had to mail a package at the post office and they have the little automated machine where you can print out your own postage for your package.

And I went there.

This is before

Christmas.

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So

the other day, I had to mail another package.

Still broken.

The machine has been broken since November.

Well, you can't get on that right now.

They're going to get on that, though.

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Come on, give them a minute.

And number 20.

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Now, I don't know if that costs a weird problem.

It's a weird problem.

I've been clamoring for that, though.

That's all I'm hearing lately.

Can we please end cash bail?

Well, actually, you have a bumper sticker on your car that says end cash bail.

I noticed one right now.

It is.

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I don't know how you get in and out.

And finally, major police department reform.

Oh, good.

Good, good.

Yeah, because that's the brutality of the police and how they beat and kill minority people.

My understanding of the police is the federal government doesn't have all that much authority over the local police, but I guess they do.

Well,

they're going to make it

their business.

Oh, they have to.

Yeah.

They have to make it

business.

I mean, it's just so

out of control.

So out of control.

So out of control.

So I feel like we're at...

I mean,

let's just make it a round number and call it $100 trillion.

Now, I would say...

What are you?

What are you getting?

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because some of these are just

unlimited.

You can't really, how much does a $15 minimum wage cost our economy?

Who knows?

I mean, really, and especially if you're guaranteeing that,

one of the proposals out there is if you are making less than that, people will just be automatically subsidized up to that point, which would be another interesting expenditure that I'm sure would not have any ramifications.

Part of his plan, though, is to make the estate tax 50% on all estates over $5 million.

Now, $5 million,

you know,

when that includes all your property and everything you own, that's not an extravagant amount of money.

It's good.

It's really good.

It's good.

No, it's good.

Most people don't die with $5 million per hour.

It's not Bill Gates money.

It's not

Bezos' money.

It's just, you know, you've done really well.

They're going to take half of that after you paid taxes on all of it your entire life.

Now we're going to take what you have left and remove half of it from you.

and you know what people will do

give their property away to their children and find ways to put them in trusts yeah because they'll try to if you have five million dollars if you have five million dollars you don't want someone coming in and are you okay with somebody coming in on your deathbed in the middle of the night and going no he's got five million dollars in the safe he's weak he's he's dying let's forget it it's right immoral you wouldn't have you would you would protect it from robbers well what is the federal government you're dying That's what you built to pass on to your children.

And they're going to take half of it?

Screw you.

Rich people will not put up with it.

No.

And

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Or move.

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By the way, the average home cost right now is $400,000 for a new home.

So, but, you know, how long is $5 million is a lot of money now?

I mean, in 30, 40 years, is it a lot of money?

30 40 years are you kidding me with the way we we're going to be printing money here soon five million dollars it's going to come fast it's going to come very fast look how much the property is worth in venezuelan money

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it gives you the credibility that you just don't hate gay people.

Although I hear that that is actually a charge that people have leveled against you

because of these

stats that you have looked into.

Welcome to the program, Chad.

Thank you.

Yes.

Chad, tell me what you found when you look into hate crimes are

trending down.

Well, since 2010, when hate crimes started to be tracked by the FBI,

we saw an immediate spike back in 2013, and then ever since it's really gone down, it fluctuates really by just a few.

Between 2016, 2017, for example, when they say there was a 17% spike, it changed by 54 incidents.

And we have to remember that these are reports.

They're not confirmed convictions.

This just means that the FBI received reports.

Right, and there's a huge difference between a report

and a conviction because Simola has showed us here in the last couple days.

I mean, last yesterday, I showed all these hate crimes

that I think I had 25 of them that the media had jumped on, and none of them were true.

And so that would be included in the hate crime statistic, correct?

Correct.

That's insanity.

And hate crimes can be anything reported from somebody stealing rainbow flags from residences as a protest to someone finding a swastika on a wall to someone reporting to the police that someone yelled a name at them as they were driving by.

Adam Ripon, for example, reported this that he was walking with his boyfriend in New York City and some random stranger walked up to him and said that he hated gay slurs and then ran away.

If he had reported that to the police, the police would have listed that as a reported anti-gay hate crime.

You know, it's amazing to me.

You know,

the hateful things that have been said to me on the street, and I would never have run to the police to report them.

You just kind of like, yeah, well, okay, everybody has an opinion, and everybody has two armpits.

Don't share it with everybody.

What exactly, Chad, is a hate crime?

A hate crime is

different by state, but the essential definition is that they're also called bias crimes.

They were introduced after the Matthew Shepard

incident.

And basically,

it's the idea that a person targets a protected class for violence or intimidation or harassment

because of their protected class status, and that's evolved now into crimes against persons, property, and society.

Okay, so could you say, would the Jesse Smullett case,

is that a hate crime?

Because he came into it with a bias against Trump supporters, white people.

I mean, isn't that a hate crime?

I mean, I think all crime is hate crime, quite honestly.

I mean,

I don't care what your motivation is.

It's a crime.

Isn't this a hate crime, what he perpetrated?

I believe so.

If we look at the law as equally applying to everyone, it it should be.

Unfortunately, it's not.

In my opinion, hate crimes create inequality in the law because they protect certain people.

And there's a difference between a racial identifier and a gay identifier.

The truth is that if you and I were both mugged on the street, because I self-identify as a gay man, I would receive more justice, more protection.

My crime would be seen as worse, having a priority over yours based only on that characteristic and I don't think that is justified but you would have to claim that as the victim wouldn't you wouldn't you have to claim this was done to me because I was gay

yes for example there's a recent

hate crime in Austin that is it's the most recent one that we've seen where two gay men were leaving a bar at 3 a.m.

and a group of men started yelling homophobic slurs at them and they got into a confrontation and then they

beat them up badly, ran off, and then now it is referred to as a hate crime.

The police have stated that in that area, in Austin, there has been a rise in random targeted attacks at 3 a.m.

on that area

at that time of night by gangs.

And so there's no indication that they were specifically targeted, but because these people used homophobic slurs while they were attacking, it is now considered a hate crime.

And if they're convicted, hate crimes will be added to their sentence, which means that they'll get a harsher punishment because they use those slurs, not because of what they actually did.

Talking to Chad Felix Green from the Federalists.

Chad, I mean, the way that the media portrays this, you know, maybe it's half of gay people are victims of

hate crimes.

That's what it feels like.

Do you have any concept of what the percentage is of gay people who go through a hate crime in a given year?

Yes.

As a rounded number, it's generally 0.001%.

As the LGBT population has grown from 3% to 4.5% over the years, that has reduced down to 0.0008%

of the LGBT population.

And that's not the population of the country.

That's just

0.008%

of the 15 million LGBT Americans report hate crimes.

That doesn't tell us how many

experiences.

Well, they will say the opposite.

They will say that it's worse.

They just don't report it.

Correct.

And my answer to that is that's always a response when we talk about anything where the numbers do not match the narrative is they say, well, that's underreported.

Imagine how many reports it would take to move that one to 0.1% or to 1%.

You'd have to multiply the incidence by 1,000.

You'd have to have 120,000 incidents in a year rather than 1,200, which we currently have.

You couldn't really go any further than that because there's only 15 million LGBT people in America, so you couldn't have any much, much higher than that.

So we would have to

agree that 120,000 people are gay people are

attacked intentionally because of their sexuality, but fail to report.

And I just don't see that as being reasonable based on the fact that every person who reports gets a glowing, shining media experience.

They are glorified as victims.

They are protected.

They get interviews.

They get GoFundMe money.

There's no downside to

telling the media that you were a victim of a hate crime or the police.

As a gay man, what do you think of

the Jussie Smollett case?

There was a Washington Times reporter who said, or not Washington Times, Washington Post reporter yesterday who said, I so want this to be true.

I want this to be true because

I don't want real hate crimes dismissed.

And so we need this to be true.

Right.

What's your take on it?

When I first saw this story, it had immediate red flags.

I think the very first tweet I said was something seems very off about this story.

I've been covering hate crimes.

Every time time there's a big hate crime report, I look into it to see what's happening for years.

And I'm accustomed to a huge spike in media reports and then nothing.

What was unique about this was that the police actually continued to investigate and the story continued to move forward and we found out what happened.

But my first response was

When you see a hate crime report and it sounds like a movie, sounds like a TV show, something's wrong.

People just do not behave in this way.

People do not

stalk out on the street wearing political gear, waiting to see if they come across a gay person and attack them.

It's different for Jews.

It's different even for black people.

Jews get very targeted hate crimes.

But the most, if you look at actual hate crimes for gay people,

And trans people are a little bit separate because they have a different world of

sex work and drugs and that sort of thing.

But if you look at gay people, they're typically opportunistic crimes.

You know, they're leaving a bar at 3 a.m., they get into a verbal fight with somebody.

Or there are things like, I'll give you an example.

In 2017, there were 52 murders of LGBT,

and 11 of them were done by people that

they knew personally.

And 45% of gay male

homicides, so 45% of gay men who are killed, are the result of hookups.

They met somebody online and that person

targeted them or killed them.

And then occasionally there have been people that have been serial killers who have targeted gay men specifically for that reason.

But my husband and I walking to Walmart are just not going to see somebody in a red hat who yells homophobic slurs at us and beats us up for the fun of it.

It just doesn't happen.

All right.

I want to talk to you, if you don't mind, I want to take a quick break and I want to come back and talk about also

the stats that you see.

The other things they include

including prison riots.

The numbers that we're seeing are so skewed

that you can't really trust any of these numbers.

And what does that mean?

How do we ever solve a problem if we don't really know what the truth is?

You're never more than 60 seconds away.

We'll be right back with Chad Felix Green

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Last night on the News and Why It Matters,

Jason

was in.

He's our head researcher, and he and Sarah were talking about

the stats of hate crimes and how hate crimes include numbers from like prison riots.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's crazy to

be able to quote any of these and have it mean what the public thinks it means.

Do you have anything on that, Chad?

Did you look into any of those kinds of stats?

I tend to focus mostly on LGBT-related stats

because racial and Jewish crimes are a little bit different.

I did research into the ADL released a huge surge in anti-Semitism last year before we saw more of what we're seeing today

from congresspeople and that sort of thing.

But for example, there was a Jewish man who had

personally called in several hundred bomb threats, and each one of those was included as an incident in

the ADL's

numbers.

And I was looking at, I don't know if you remember, there was a young man, his name was Seth Owen, and the headline that we saw for a while was he was kicked out of his home for being gay, and he was now homeless, and he was a gay valedictorian.

He wanted to go to college.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I researched that, and the truth was that he was 18 when the story happened.

He actually came out when he was 15.

He just disagreed with his parents' church's view on homosexuality, and he left on his own.

But because of the story that he said, I was kicked out, I was rejected by my family.

He got $50,000 from donors.

He got a free ride to college, and Ellen invited him on the stage and celebrated him as an LGBT hero.

There's a huge benefit personally to every minority, but specifically the LGBT to be able to say, I survived the hate in in this country.

And it's become so important

that to say, I've never experienced a hate crime, like me,

is devalued.

It's much,

you receive social benefits to saying, I survived a hate crime.

And one of the things that I always point out is, if we have such a small amount of reporting, how is it that

so many LGBT activists will very loudly say that they have experienced experienced multiple hate crimes in their lifetime when

it just simply is impossible.

We're talking about 1,200 people out of 325 million.

It's interesting, Chad, because I think the

Jesse Smollett story, a lot of people on the conservative side have taken the media doing a terrible job with it, which is certainly a big part of the story.

But I think this developing incentive to climb up the intersectionality ladder and show how, you know, show victimhood has become the trophy you go for in the society.

And those incentives, I think, are even a bigger story than anything the media is doing.

Absolutely.

When he released this story,

and I've said that I didn't necessarily judge people who immediately stood up for him or who sympathized with him because that's just human compassion.

Once we started to see things that were problematic and they started to be bullies and yell at people who questioned or asked questions, that's when i started to be frustrated but the truth is that once this story came out

dozens and dozens and dozens of activists and celebrities and politicians all suddenly poured out their love to this person

and that is from a human perspective that is a very difficult thing to to be strong enough to walk away from.

Imagine the whole world telling you how brave you are and how wonderful you are and how you are the voice of a generation.

The human rights campaign, and Chad Griffin's

the president of the largest LGBT organization, you know, is thank you.

You speak for all of the queer POOC people in the world and in America.

All the kids who face hate every day who don't have a voice can now feel safe because you have a voice.

That's a very intoxicating

position to be in that

the left is so used to people not questioning them that it seems like a very easy thing to go after.

And I'll be honest,

I believe that very often they believe these things are true, even though they set it up.

There's this mindset in their head of

I'm just acting out what I know is happening every day because I have the power to bring it to light even though it didn't happen to me specifically

I am bringing a voice to it because I know that it's happening everywhere.

Yep.

So what do you think will happen to him in the gay community?

We only have one minute.

Do you think Jussie is going to pay a price for this or are they going to give him a soft landing?

I think we're going to, I'm surprised by the sort of negative, you know, the kind of, I can't believe he did this.

The truth is that everyone is sort of baffled and hurt, but they're switching it to, look how excited conservatives are to pounce.

And this doesn't mean hate crimes aren't real.

And I believe that's, I think that whatever happens to him legally, he'll probably fade away.

But the story is going to be more focused on this just shows us how important it is to fight real hate crimes.

Thank you so much.

Chad Felix Green from the Federalist, great reporter and a great guest.

Thank you so much for being on again with us, Chad Felix Green.

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I just read a tweet from Kirsten Powers.

She's got a string of tweets, but this is the most important.

I spent the last few weeks in a mostly Twitter-free zone to spend time reflecting on what role I may have played in what has indisputably become a dangerous, toxic culture.

I am not proud of what I have found.

Five years ago, I asked, will anyone in the press do this and take responsibility for what they have done?

I'll take responsibility for what I did.

Will you even look at yourself?

She's the first person to do it that I know of.

And I would like, we disagree on a lot of things, but I would love to have her on and talk to her about this journey that she has made herself.

I think that's hats off.

Hats off.

All right.

I want to introduce you to somebody.

Shana Lopez Rivas is a gun rights activist, and

she has a rather dicey story at the beginning.

She was against guns, and she said she had all kinds of misconceptions

from the gun control groups that she kind of hung out with.

But something happened that changed her mind, and she has written a great article for the Miami Herald.

The latest gun background check legislation would not have stopped the Parkland tragedy.

In fact, it does so much more

than that.

And Shana is joining us now.

Hello, Shana.

How are you?

Hi, I'm doing great.

Good.

Thanks for having me on.

You bet.

Shana, for those of you who don't know, can you give us

a brief

look at what happened to you?

I'm sorry, I'm so uncomfortable even asking you to go through this, but can you talk about what happened to you?

Of course.

No problem.

In 2014, I was on my college campus trying to,

I was going to study at the library that night.

Finals were just a couple weeks away.

And instead of studying, I ended up being attacked and raped on my college campus.

He had a knife.

I had pepper spray.

It didn't really work out for me.

And so from that night, I made a promise to myself that I was never going to be a victim again.

And I started just delving into self-defense training and

came up with firearms training and have not really looked back since.

Right.

And now you are talking to friends and you've become a gun rights activist with some credibility behind you.

And

you just

took a friend to a

a shooting range who was, what, neutral on guns?

Or what were their opinion on guns when you went?

Yeah,

I have a lot of friends that are just not either neutral on guns, not very comfortable around guns.

So I kind of always just put out this

standing notice essentially to everyone in my own network that, hey, like if you, you know, If you want firearms safety training, like we don't, you don't have to agree with

guns.

You don't have to ever touch a gun again.

But if you just want, you know, basic safety and knowledge of how to use one, I have no issue teaching you that.

And so I took my friend who was,

I wouldn't say she was anti-gun, but she wasn't very pro-gun out to the range.

And she absolutely fell in love with it.

She loved every minute she was out there.

I ended up writing about it for the Miami Herald because of

HRA and how that would essentially impact her training in the future.

This is amazing.

Now, this is called the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019, or HR8,

and it's supposed to make sure that gun safety, this is just bipartisan common sense gun safety, except it's not.

Explain what it will do.

So, HR8 is

what the bipartisan background checks bill is.

It does not actually,

one of the worst things that it does is it it does not define transfer, but essentially

it bans any private transfer of a firearm

from one individual to another.

So essentially,

in the example in the article that I gave, I took my friend out to the shooting range.

If I wanted to lend her a firearm so she could go back and like continue to train on her own, it would essentially make me a criminal if I didn't first go to a federal firearms license dealer and get a background check done on her, even though she's a close friend and I know her well, I know she's not a criminal.

I know she's not going to hurt herself or others, but it would essentially make it illegal, punishable by up to a $1,000 fine or a year in prison.

And there's no excuse for ignorance on this.

No, none.

And

would it ban you from taking her to a shooting range yourself and handing her the gun?

Like, for instance, automatic weapons.

I have some fully automatic weapons, and they take all kinds of special license and everything else.

It's a nightmare to get through.

But I cannot hand that weapon to somebody else unless they're on my license.

So if I just said, look at this, and I handed it to a friend, I could go to jail.

I'd go to prison for that.

Does this

go that far?

Do you know?

HR8 originally did go that far.

However,

in order to essentially circumvent people from saying like that's what it's going to be,

the Democrats and the people that had written the bill essentially changed it to include essentially it basically makes very few exceptions,

but

it essentially covers only the transfer, the actual transfer of the firearm when you are not there.

But the problem is it really doesn't define the word transfer at all, though.

So in theory,

yes, it could

include that.

There's nothing better than really important laws that are cryptic.

It also, you say, will not stop criminals from stealing firearms, getting them on the black market, or getting them through straw purchasers.

No, it won't.

In fact, there was a study that showed that 90% of criminals get their guns through illicit methods, essentially, and it doesn't stop any of those methods.

This HR8 was also, they put this bill in markup the day before the Parkland shooting anniversary.

And

the most ironic part about that is that this bill would not have stopped Parkland in any way if it was passed then, like at all.

It would have had no impact on it because the person that committed that horrible act passed a background check anyway.

Can you tell me

how many guns are being used by

criminals or killers that have borrowed a gun from their friend?

Do you have any idea?

I don't know the actual number for that, but I did recently read a study.

It was, I think, in the Journal of Preventative Medicine that essentially

showed that 90% of criminals, they did a survey of inmates that had been put in prison for firearm gun-related crimes and they said that like 90% of them said that they did not get they they got it essentially from those off-the-book meme

means where like somebody knew who they were and gave it to them as a gift anyway even though that's illegal or they stole it or

otherwise were given shared it with other like gang members that sort of thing So you're talking about like the majority of criminals are getting their guns from like illicit means anyway.

They are not going to follow the law anyway.

What are the odds

HR8 passes?

In the House, I think it'll pass.

In the Senate,

I don't know.

And I would really hope that if it did pass in the Senate, that President Trump wouldn't sign it into law.

But,

you know, I have concerns there too.

So.

Shana, thank you so much for turning something bad in your life into something good and

then sharing that with the rest of the world.

And thank you for standing up as an activist to protect the Second Amendment.

I appreciate it.

Thanks, Shana.

Thank you so much.

You bet.

You can follow her.

Noel for justice.

Noel for justice.

I'm always amazed at the combination of strange stances that goes on sometimes in this country.

For example, you know, we're in the middle of watching Venezuela crumble, and then we have all these new socialists here in this country.

It's fascinating.

Same thing here, in that you have a Democratic Party that is against firearms in basically every single case.

They want to get rid of them.

One of the candidates just announced her support for a

semi-automatic weapon ban.

That's not the quote-unquote unsault weapon.

That's basically every gun that anyone owns.

That's any gun that

has gas that reloads.

Right.

So I mean, it's over, what was it, 90% of guns?

I mean, it's basically everything.

At the same time, they tell us constantly that the Me Too is almost every woman is being harassed, maybe assaulted.

One in four women are raped on campus.

We hear all of these things that go on.

It's like, wouldn't you combine that with empowering a woman with the one thing that can take down a guy who's trying to assault her?

No.

No.

No, here's why.

Because women just they'll have the take the gun taken from them.

Okay, so the guy is too powerful.

Women cannot defend themselves.

Hard to walk through bullets Glenn.

Really hard.

No, that's the, it'll be used against them.

Studies show, Stu, that most people that have a gun have it turned against them.

No, really?

Is that what studies show?

That's what studies show.

Studies show it, huh?

Yeah.

Well, I mean, I think I'd rather have the opportunity to actually be able to defend myself.

Yeah.

And I think women would like that as well.

And if they choose to.

And anybody who has a gun and then has it turned against them, it's only because you weren't willing to

pull the trigger.

And that's because you haven't

thought about it enough.

Yeah, you do need to train.

Perhaps you train.

I mean, look, someone could come up from behind you, and there's certainly instances.

The way they say, well, women will just have the gun taken from, is because you're too stupid to use the gun.

You don't have to be a gun.

You're talking down to women.

Yeah,

you're going to say, stop, stop, and not really want to fire the gun.

That's the only way.

I know my wife, she is a great shot.

And I know my wife will take that gun and she'll look at somebody at the hallway that's coming down towards the bedroom or towards the kids.

And she will say, I have a gun.

I'm prepared to shoot.

Move one more step toward us and you will be shot.

And that person moves one step and she will shoot them.

Nobody's going to take that gun away from my wife.

She will shoot you first.

And that's the problem.

A gun by itself is nothing.

It's a tool.

If you've never, I mean, you should see me with tools.

Using a hammer, it ain't pretty.

Because I don't ever practice using a hammer.

Then you're not a man.

Right.

Well,

no, I.

You have no

protected class of a.

I'm not a protected class, so I can't say anything about that.

Hateful

observation.

If I'm correct, then you are a protected class.

Well,

you'd be maybe transitioning.

Anyway, you have to, when you have a tool, you have to learn how to use it.

Of course.

You have to learn how to use it.

And you are absolutely right.

This back and forth gymnastics that you have to do to be a modern day social justice warrior or progressive or socialist is insane.

You have to deny that what's what's happening in Venezuela is happening because of socialism.

This is the way socialist countries always end.

It is not Sweden.

That is not a socialist country.

That is a free market with a heavy welfare state put into it.

It's not socialism.

Venezuela, Cuba, that's socialism.

So you have to deny your eyes there.

You have to say women are powerful, but the gun will be taken away from them.

Women are smart enough and they're good enough to be in the army, but they'll have the gun taken away from them.

I mean, why do we have women in our armed forces if they're going to have the gun taken away from them?

It's insulting.

It's totally insulting.

Totally insulting.

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I want to talk to him about a couple of things that are going on.

One,

the incredible spike in defaults of people's auto loans and what that's going to mean for the economy.

We know some people that, you know, are Fed level that have said that's the thing to watch for, so we'll talk about that.

Also, Goldman Sachs and is it really a good business idea to cure disease?

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Farrakhan, news on him and what he said about Congressman or two, Congressman Omar, it's pretty amazing.

We'll give that audio to you.

By the way, he still has a blue check mark, still on Twitter, Louis Farrakhan.

Does he have a blue check mark?

I know he's on Twitter for sure.

Yeah, he might have lost his blue check mark, which, you know, now.

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We'll have that coming up.

I wanted to bring in

our senior researcher on economics, Justin Wheeler.

Justin

is working on several projects for me that all revolve around the economy because the economy is the key to everything.

You want to make sure that we don't have socialism, protect the economy.

You want to make sure that we don't have a socialist president in 2020?

Protect the economy.

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Protect the economy.

Know what's coming.

And I saw a disturbing story that there is a huge spike in auto loan defaults.

Now, Danielle DiMartino Booth, who was a researcher for the Fed, she was really important here in the Dallas Fed.

She said that's the thing that she's really watching.

And she was waiting for this spike.

And we just saw a real spike.

Can you explain it, Justin?

Yeah, of course.

Thanks for having me on.

So, yeah, more than 7 million current auto loans are in default, which is defined as greater than 90 days delinquent in making their payments.

And it's important to note that does not include leases.

So, leases are also in as bad a shape.

They just don't count those in the number because it's not an auto loan, it's a lease, and the car company still owns the vehicle.

So,

put this into perspective: 7 million are

90 days or longer in default.

And in 2010, I think was the real height of the auto line, a lot of loan crisis.

Remember?

It's the cash for, I think, of 2011.

Remember the cash for clunkers and all of that stuff.

When

that had a huge spike, and that was only 5.6 million, I think.

Right.

We're 1.3 million more in default today than we were at the height of that crisis.

In the middle of a good economy, too, on its surface, right?

Like, this is not like a, we're not in a theoretical crisis at this moment.

You know, unemployment's low, things have improved, lots of good indicators, and yet we still have more people in default on their auto loans.

That's terrifying.

Why?

So, here's why.

There's a couple of things that are just

which should seem very familiar if you were with us in 2008 and 2009.

40% of auto loans made in the last two years were made to subprime borrowers.

Oh, my gosh.

40%.

Just the 40%, though.

Yeah.

That's at the height of

2006, 2007, leading into the housing crisis, 14% of home loans were made to subprime.

So we're at 40% in auto, but 14% was the height of home loans made to subprime.

So Danielle says,

this is our undoing.

She said,

this is the little teeny pebble that's going to spurt out of the dam that's going to make the whole thing come down.

Very well could be.

It's definitely a key leading economic indicator that everyone should be watching very closely.

And there's one other reason to point out.

The most popular vehicles to purchase in the United States today are trucks and SUVs.

And that's great.

I own an SUV.

I think they're fantastic to drive around in.

Those vehicles tend to cost 50% more than your average sedan, and they cost 35% more to operate and maintain over their lifespan.

So Americans compared to 2011 are buying more expensive vehicles, and they're buying vehicles that cost them more to run the whole time they have it.

So it's no wonder that we have more vehicle loans and auto loans that are in default today.

So

how does this spread?

When you see a number like this,

does our economic DEF CON go up?

I think it does significantly.

And certainly

this should act as a canary in the coal mine.

We really should be paying close attention to this for our own economy.

One other thing to point out when we're looking at auto loans, it's worse in other countries.

So, yes, we have millions of auto loans.

And that's GMAC.

Oh, that's exactly right.

You look at the companies that are impacted by this.

It's not banks.

It's the car companies.

It's GMAC was allowed to become a bank, and so they make all of the car loans.

Not all of them, but they're big.

If the auto loan industry goes down the tank, it doesn't matter if their car industry, their car making thing was good.

That impacts the entire company.

Yep.

And imagine what happens to those pensions at those companies again with that type of impact.

But there is good news.

Okay.

So 7 million auto loans in default.

8 million student loans are in default.

And the good news is,

well, you know,

that's only 20% of all student loans are in default.

So it's not that bad.

It's expected to increase to 40% of all student loans being in default by the time our next president is sworn in.

So just over the next couple of years.

And here's your pitch for free college, right?

This is when the Bernie Sanders plan came out today.

It's going to be free college student debt relief.

Why did that suddenly spike?

I mean, because there was what was called a conspiracy theory,

but as we play over and over again with healthcare, it's not a conspiracy.

It's not a Trojan horse.

It's just right there.

I'm telling you.

Yeah, I'm telling you, this is it.

One of the theories was is that they wanted to be able to drive people into debt debt you could not wash away and then say well we're going to create a program uh like amerikor and you're going to work for amerior you're going to serve now they they want to crush any college that wants to do that themselves and say hey look we we'll pay for your college it's like an apprentice program but you're going to work for us for three years afterwards uh yeah the government doesn't like that but they'll do it with this Sure, absolutely.

They'll do it for themselves.

I mean, just think back to what we went through with the adoption of Obamacare.

So Obamacare, if you recall, had about a 62, even with all the new taxes, even with the subsidies coming from higher wage earners, had about a $62 billion a year shortfall.

So the government had a really clever plan to cover that shortfall, and that was the government took over the student lending industry.

Instead of backing the loans made by banks, the government just started lending directly to students.

And the income that the government was going to make on the interest paid by those students on their loans would cover the $62 billion shortfall.

So we do have this entire generation now.

The average college student is graduating college today with $41,000 of debt to the government.

That is the average senior graduation debt ratio.

And with 40% of those expected to be in default in the next three years, that means that the dollars that are supposed to be flowing into the government's coffers to to cover Obamacare disappears.

That money's gone.

Obamacare also will not be fully funded because student loans are supposed to be what's funding Obamacare.

You said you had good news?

Oh, I'm sorry.

I hadn't gotten to that yet.

The U.S.

Farm Belt is experiencing bankruptcy rates that are 75% higher than at the height of the Great Recession.

Okay, and

that's tied directly to the trade war.

Yes.

It is.

There's actually another component I want to bring up, though.

In a way, this really is a good thing.

Over the last few years, we've talked about this several times on the show.

Pinker has it in his book, obviously, and we've had him on.

We have lifted 2 billion people globally out of poverty over the last 20 years.

Just in the last eight years, 500 million new people have been lifted out of poverty globally, primarily through farming.

So what America did is we took our technology and we took our apparatus and we took our great technologies around getting water to where it needs to be, and we taught the world how to farm.

Well, that has dramatically suppressed the prices of soy and corn and rice and 15 other crops because they can grow there.

Because now they can grow them there.

Which is good.

That's fantastic.

It's good.

It's wonderful.

But it does have a direct impact, obviously, on U.S.

farmers who used to be the primary producers of those crops globally.

And now they are coming from other countries closer to where they are being imported into places like China and Australia.

And then you attack on top of that the tariffs and the impact of the Trump tariffs, the

retaliatory tariffs that get put on by those other countries, Mexico, China, chief among those, and you have a dramatic suppression of prices for U.S.

farmers.

That was the good news.

That was the good news.

Okay.

Well, 500 million, you know, I got to say, 500 million people lifted out of poverty in eight years

probably overshadows everything else we'll talk about today.

And you know what?

That is the kind of good news that we're going to be having for the next 10 years because there are going to be so many things that are really tremendous, but are going to cause a lot of pain in the shift of this economy as we totally change to a high-tech economy.

I want to ask you one thing when we come back.

There was

a report done in Goldman Sachs, and it was on biotech.

And

it asked the question: let's see if I have it, because

I don't want to misquote it.

Is curing patients a sustainable business model?

This one is disturbing, or it's exactly what you would expect Goldman and Sachs to do in a good way.

And I want to talk about that and tell you what this report says and what they're trying to settle in one minute.

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So, in a biotech research report for Goldman Sachs, they talked about curing drugs and it says treatments for hepatitis C, this is one of their examples, which achieved cure rates of more than 90%.

The company U.S.

sales for these hepatitis C treatments peaked at $12.5 billion in 2015, but they've been falling ever since.

Goldman estimates the U.S.

sales for these treatments will be less than $4 billion a year, according to the table in the report.

Guild, the company that made this, is a case in point where the success of hepatitis C franchise has gradually exhausted the available pool of treatable patients.

In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also

decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients.

So, is curing patients a sustainable business model?

That's an uncomfortable question.

The potential to deliver one-shot cures is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically engineered cell therapy, and gene editing.

However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies.

While this proposition carries tremendous value for patients and society, it could represent a challenge for genome medicine developers looking for sustained cash flow.

How do you look at that, Justin?

You talk a a lot about,

you know, don't fear A, I fear the algorithm.

Yes.

Imagine you developed an algorithm that said maximize profits.

That's all it said.

The goal of that algorithm was just maximize profits.

The end result would be exactly this summation.

They would say, curing people reduces our capacity to make profits, therefore, don't cure anyone.

That's what the algorithm would determine.

It would make that determination.

The great news is

so far the economy is still run by human beings.

In the banking sector a few years ago, an algorithm developed an underwriting model for financial transactions for loans.

And the algorithm, again, was about maximizing profits and reducing defaults, reduce risk in the portfolio.

And the algorithm came back and said, don't lend to minorities.

That's basically what it said.

Yeah, don't lend to blacks and Hispanics.

They default more often.

But of course, we ignored the algorithm, and we actually increase our lending to blacks and Hispanics.

We have a separate set of goals morally as human beings.

So it's not surprising that a financial analyst could come up with that type of summary.

This isn't an algorithm that wrote this.

This is a

problem.

It could be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But I mean,

if the pharmaceutical company writes that, you got a big problem, right?

If that's the way a pharmaceutical company is thinking, sure, that's a problem.

I mean, what is Goldman Sachs other than essentially an algorithm to figure out how to make profits off of different industries?

So the fact that they are analyzing it that way, the same way they would say, hey, if a war breaks out, these defense contractors will increase their profits.

That's not saying they're rooting for war.

That's just saying, like, the reality is this could be an issue if you're thinking about investing in these particular medical stocks.

So, here's the problem: you know, just as Eisenhower said, you have to be very aware of a military-industrial complex that will have its roots everywhere, and

it will be motivated to take us places that the American people may not be motivated to take us.

The same thing could be said here.

We are now at an algorithm industrial complex to where

you could easily

surrender to these algorithms and say we've got to maximize things.

And because we're we're getting to a place now to where we are going to be talking.

Justin, tell me if you think this is unreasonable.

I'm going to make it 30 years, okay?

But I don't think most people would hear this, even with 30 years, and say that's even a possibility.

We are looking at approaching a time where 90%

of all the things that we suffer from now are no longer a problem.

And

they're either no longer in existence or we can replace those body parts and you're just going to, it just won't be a problem.

We're 30 years away from that.

I think we're about 10 years away from that.

But that's going to change the model.

Oh, it absolutely has to.

The planned death age today in Social Security in their model is 83 years.

So if you're going to live past 83 years, the model entirely breaks down.

You guys were talking earlier about unfunded liabilities, and obviously we had to correct STU on the year.

It's $122 trillion currently for government unfunded liabilities.

But if you just fast-forward that by four years, and you can do that on the debt clock, you can just say, you know, pick the year you want to look at, It increases to $157 trillion by the time the next president is sworn in.

I mean, that's pretty incredible.

We jump from $122 trillion to $157 trillion.

Why did you smile when you said that?

I like big numbers.

And I also want to introduce a new word to the human lexicon.

If you had asked the average American in 1930 what came after a billion, what number comes after a billion, most of them couldn't have told you.

It's a trillion.

And now we all know it.

What comes after a trillion?

Quite a trillion.

Quite a trillion.

Very good.

Gold star for both of you.

The global unfunded liabilities, including government-guaranteed pensions globally, is 1.2 quadrillion today.

Today.

That's what it is today.

What did you just say?

1.2.

No, what's that number attached to?

Total global unfunded liabilities.

So this is all governments, including government-guaranteed pensions globally, is 1.2 quadrillion today.

Wait, Wait,

the global economy is 55 trillion.

Isn't that

the global GDP?

GDP?

Yeah,

about 55 trillion.

It's a little bit more than that, but about 60, yeah.

About $60 trillion.

That's what everything is made in a year.

Bought, sold, made, everything in a year is $60 trillion.

And a quadrillion is 1,000 trillions.

Houston?

Get Britain.

I think we have a problem.

I think we have a problem.

Hey, thanks for that cheery update.

Of course.

No, it's always good to have you here.

Again, forgot to get to that good news.

No, no.

Oh,

I do have something down here at the bottom.

Don't forget, this is the USA.

Oh, okay, cool.

That's good.

That's good.

We're going to make it through everything.

We're good to go.

We dealt with Hitler.

Jeez.

We can do that.

I mean, we can do it.

We can do it.

I'm just rocking back and forth.

We can do it.

We can do it.

It's fine.

We can do it.

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Also, some new comments from some of the crazy candidates in 2020 on the way.

I'm going to take this call real quick from Bruce in Ohio.

We were just talking about this Goldman Sachs biotech research report that asked, is curing patients really a sustainable business model?

Should we be in the business of gene therapy when that will be a one-time cost instead of people being sick for the rest of their lives?

Really harsh and ugly.

Bruce in Ohio, welcome.

Hey, Gwen, this is Bruce in Ohio.

Hey,

I can't tell you how what a privilege it is to be on your program.

Thank you.

And to talk to you.

I mean, I've listened to you for a long, long time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm a tradesman.

I'm working on the job every day listening to you the first three hours of the day.

Thank you.

I never listen to you.

I'm in contracts.

They pay me to listen to this show, so I don't know.

So, Bruce,

curing patients, you say is not a good business model.

No, because that's already what we're following.

Our whole medical industry, our whole pharmaceutical industry,

our politics is all set up on not curing things.

Our whole medical industry right now treats the causes,

treats the causes of something.

They treat everything with medications and drugs, but they don't really address what caused people to get in the condition they are.

And

I'm as far as I can see, I think it's mostly it's because our food supply.

Instead of really teaching people how to eat and getting the toxins out of our food supply, we're just treating people with medications because it's repeat business.

Because instead of really telling people how they can get off these medications, we instead get a repeat customer for the rest of their lives.

So I, Bruce, I kind of agree with you,

but I don't think it's a conspiracy on that.

I think it's the idea that

we've got such a complex system.

The companies that are making our food are

trying to maximize the ability to make food for the entire world.

And so that food may not be as good for us as it used to be, but they're not doing it because they're like, we're going to get you hooked on it.

Although there are some things about, you know, the gene splicing with the wheat.

And so, you know, it's a trademark wheat.

But even that is, there's more to that story.

But I think we are entering a time if we don't find our moral compass that the decisions, and we are seeing this now, it's not worth keeping you alive.

Turn the machine off.

And it's never been a problem.

Well, it's always been a problem

because it's been the free market that has decided that.

If you can pay, if you can find somebody to help, if you can raise money, you're going to be able to do that.

And that's been unfair.

But now we're entering a system to where an algorithm or a team of doctors will make the decision.

And that seems to me more unfair because now it's a group of people that they're just like you.

They're making the decision who lives and dies.

I don't like that.

And that's certainly a really

disturbing question as we go forward.

Bruce sounded like a good guy.

I totally disagree with every point that he made.

But

I mean, I think this idea that it's not a good business to get in the idea of

curing diseases

is nuts.

I mean, look.

I think there's more money to be made on the cure for cancer.

Oh my God.

It's unbelievable.

We'd be in the trillions of dollars of money if you can cure that.

And remember, you've got to cure it worldwide.

There's new things that pop up all the time.

It's like one of these things.

There's a theoretical amount

of overpopulation that could happen on the globe.

Theoretically, it could happen.

Who knows?

My belief is it will never happen.

We will never get to a point like that.

In fact, we won't even get close to it.

But in theory, you could say, well, these overpopulation people are like, oh, my gosh, like we're going to have so many people.

We're not going to have enough resources.

Theoretically, you can imagine that.

The same thing with curing diseases.

If you were to come up with a cure of cancer today,

likely you would still, there would still be cancer on this earth when you die.

Right.

Like

the amount of runway you have before that theoretical idea of where they start losing profits is so insanely far down the road.

Plus, there's always 100 million new things to cure.

We invent new diseases like every day.

All you have to do is just make it a vaccine and eventually people will say, I'm not taking that cancer vaccine.

And it'll all come back.

It'll all come back.

There are raging cancer throughout the world, and then it'll come back.

It's like these things where they say, well, they don't, they don't, there's all these new alternative fuels that you can fuel your car for nothing, but they don't want those things to come out.

The bottom line is, when those things do come out and they're reliable, the same freaking companies that give you gas today will be the ones supplying it to you in the future, and they'll be able to make money because the free market rewards things that change people's lives for the positive.

I was talking to a guy who's in the race car business.

Okay.

He's in the very high-end race car kind of, you know, street legal race car stuff.

He said there's a couple of major companies that are now going to

are now introducing inside

the all-electric car.

Okay.

That will compete with Tesla, but on a very high, you know, like the Bugatti size.

Yeah.

That will stop.

He said to me, I believe that you will see in the next 10 years an end

to these engines.

Combustion engines?

Yeah.

And it's like, holy cow.

I mean, and that's the free market doing it, not the market.

It's the free market doing it.

It's the free market doing it.

I mean, we've driven a Tesla before.

That's been really a high-level Tesla that they brought over here one day.

And it is, I mean, look, it's faster than any combustion engine I've ever been in.

No, it's faster than a Ferrari or anything else.

Pretty much any car on the market.

From 0 to 60, for sure.

It has no gears.

Right.

It just goes.

It just goes.

It's just there.

It's just at the speed almost immediately.

You know, like those things are incredible innovations at some point.

I think that very well may be the way that we go.

It's a different,

you know, I think Americans still love.

their internal combustion engines, but you know what?

These things, cultures change, and there will always be a place for them in some world.

Culture is changing everywhere.

And what's amazing is there are people, it's already going to come down and change, but there are people that are intent on destroying it right now.

Can I switch subjects and go to Farrakhan?

Here's Louis Farrakhan

on

Congresswoman Omar.

Listen to this.

Farrakhan to Omar.

Why was he honor?

Why he should get up.

No.

He's breaking up every

pillar of democracy.

Because it wasn't no damn democracy from from the beginning.

No, it's a republic.

It needs to be broken up.

Now you got my sisters in there.

102 women in Congress.

Boy, am I happy.

And one of them said that

she was using some funny language, brother.

Miss Omar from Somalia.

She started talking about the Benjamins.

And they trying to make her apologize.

I said, sweetheart, don't do that.

Oh, pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweetheart because you sure using it to shake the government up.

But you have nothing to apologize for.

Israel and AIPAC pays off senators and congressmen to do their bidding.

So you're not lying.

So if you're not lying,

Stop laying down.

You were sent there by the people to shake up that corrupt house.

Shake it up.

It's amazing.

He goes on to talk about the dirty Jews and how the dirty Jews are breaking up the women's movement and trying to get him to

say horrible things.

How long is this clip, Sarah?

Because I've got 18 seconds.

Yeah, just listen to this.

Now, the wicked Jews

want to use me to break up the women's movement.

It ain't about Firecon.

It's about women all over the world have the power to change the world.

So

he's still going.

He, by the way, he still has an account on Facebook.

He can still say all of these things.

You can't question on

Twitter whether or not Jussie, what's his name,

created a hate crime or committed a hate crime.

You can't say learn to code.

God forbid you say learn to code.

You're going to get to lose your account.

You can say all of these things.

Now, there were two reporters that I think show promise,

that show that maybe, maybe,

slightly, a few things are starting to change.

And

one I mentioned earlier, and that is Kirsten Powers.

Now,

she's the reporter.

She was on Fox.

She was annoying.

Well,

she was the Democrat that was on Fox and during those debates.

Right.

And so it was just like, oh, okay, so.

But there are a lot of Republicans who are that way as well on television.

But she just tweeted that she has spent time away from social media, and now she has examined her role on what she's done to divide the country.

And she said, I don't like the results.

And I find that very, very comforting.

And interesting from her, because I would not say she was one of the worst offenders when it comes to Democrats on television.

Benny, I think she was on the better side generally of Democratic

commentators.

But she disagreed with her, and she was one of those people you were just like frustrated with.

Yeah, but

she wasn't a flamethrower.

And this is a

whether she is or not, I mean, just the fact that she's at least examining and doing some positive side reflection.

There's also the CBS reporter.

Now, this is Laura

Laura Logan.

If you remember Laura Logan, she was the one that was raped in Egypt

during the revolution.

The spring, the Arab Spring.

The glorious Arab Spring.

That was so wonderful and peaceful.

She was raped in that.

Here she is.

She's a 60 Minutes reporter.

I want you to listen to what she said

in this podcast about reporters.

Listen to this.

85%

of journalists are registered Democrats.

So that's just a fact, right?

No one's registering Democrat when they're rarely a Republican.

So the facts are on the side of what what you just stated.

Most journalists are left or liberal or Democrat or whatever word you want to give it.

How do you know you're being lied to?

How do you know you're being manipulated?

How do you know there's something not right with the coverage?

When they simplify it all,

and there's no gray, there's no gray.

It's all one way.

Well, life isn't like that.

For example, you know,

all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative.

There's nothing, there's nothing, no mitigating policy or event or anything that has happened since he was elected that is out there in the medias that you can read about, right?

Well, that tells you that's distortion of the way things go in real life.

Because although the media has always been, historically, always been left-leaning,

we've abandoned

our pretense or at least the effort to be objective today.

Unbelievable frankness.

And she's absolutely right.

It's what I wrote about in Addicted to Outrage.

I said, if you talk to everything that we, everything we watch on Donald Trump, it's all negative.

Or it's all absolutely positive.

That's not true.

McDonald's is the greatest example.

There are times that you want McDonald's food.

There are other times you're like,

it'll be

all afternoon.

And you can say McDonald's has bad food.

But if I say to you, yeah, okay, I'll agree with the shake and maybe a couple of things, but their fries are the best.

If you can't admit that McDonald's fries are the best, there's something wrong with you.

There is something wrong with you.

Donald Trump is McDonald's.

Yeah, there's some bad things, but there's some great things too.

You got to mention both.

If not, you're not an honest broker.

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This is the Glenn Beck program.

All right, we've got a couple of things that we want to hit.

Of course, Bernie Sanders, we covered his

really great and cheap policies.

Some of them we didn't really understand.

But we also want to hit the Klobuchar Town Hall, where she supports a semi-automatic gun ban.

Now, listen to this.

Like New Hampshire, Minnesota is a state that values the outdoors.

We value hunting and fishing.

And so I come at it from a little different place than some of my colleagues that are running for this office, in that I always look at every proposal and say, would this hurt my Uncle Dick in the deer stand?

And I would say that these common sense proposals in front of us do not.

I don't see banning assault weapons, right?

I don't think that hurts in the deer stand.

Yeah,

a semi-automatic gun ban takes away about 90% of guns.

Does she phrase it there as an assault weapons ban?

But what does assault weapon mean?

Exactly.

That's because this is a semi-automatic.

So most handguns now are semi-automatic.

Okay.

Most handguns.

Of course.

So they're all gone.

That's a ban on that.

So what you're left with is a a Western-style gun.

I got a six-shooter on my side.

That's what you're left with.

I will remind you that Klobuchar, too, is running as basically the moderate in the race right now.

Oh, I know.

She's not even the most extreme

or even close to it.

Oh, I know.

Our

Democratic primary election model right now has her in fourth place.

Who's in first place?

So we just added Bernie in there.

So right now we have first place is Kamala Harris,

just a tick ahead of Bernie Sanders.

Those are the two top tier.

The next tier would have Corey Booker, then A.B.

Klobuchar, then Elizabeth Warren.

Next tier is Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, Telsey Gabbard, and then we're down to Buddha Judge, Williamson, Yang, Delaney.

Buddha and Yang are Buddha Judge.

He's the mayor of...

That's two.

That's the last name.

That's not two names.

Not Buddha Judge.

No, that would be a good name.

Yeah, Buddha Judge.

No, it's Buddha Judge.

Pete Buddha Judge.

Pete Buddha Judge.

Which I don't know why he's not running on the impeached Kavanaugh.

Buddha Judge.

It's in his name.

You just say, hey, I'm Buddha Judge, and I'm going to boot that judge.

Like, that's a great.

People would actually recognize him.

I don't think it will help in this campaign.

I don't think Buddha Judge is going to make it.

But you can.

You're listening to Glenn Beck.