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there's a new poop-related problem in California.

No, it's not new.

Well, it's a problem.

Yes, and we get into that right at the start of the show, which you might question

if you

have ever heard of a radio program before, whether that's the right decision, but we did it anyway.

Well, we're talking economics we're talking about the social constructs

uh we're talking about homelessness and we're talking about poop and i mean doesn't that cover all of the things that everybody has to deal with yesterday most of them yes you and somehow these happen in the same show

but after the poop stuff was over you got into a little bit of an introspective mode well because you kind of question

what's really important

once you've talked about poop for a while.

Yes, well, it seems that we are living in this world that nothing matters, right?

Truth doesn't matter.

No.

Honesty doesn't matter.

Post-fact era.

Yes.

Facts don't matter.

Truth doesn't matter.

Shame doesn't matter.

Honor doesn't matter.

Nothing matters.

Math doesn't matter.

Math is a social construct.

And yet, at the same time,

everything matters.

But they're all the small things.

The big things don't matter.

The small, little things piss us off to the point where our head pops.

And so, you know, when you talk about poop for a while, you do want to say, what's wrong with this society?

And

some

kind of deep feelings took me by surprise.

You're listening to

the best of the Glenbeck Program.

It's Thursday, August 23rd.

Glenn back.

Well, we have to start the show with a California update brought to you by our sponsor, new Pooperoni.

Pooperoni on San Francisco streets.

Yes, California's crappy policy is now yielding some literal crappy results.

In one week last month, the city of San Francisco logged over 16,000 complaints of human poop on the streets.

Let me say that again.

16,000 people called the city and went, there it's somebody's crapping in the street in front of my house.

In seven days,

the mounds of vagrant-generated poop actually forced the closure of a convention being held downtown.

You know, didn't they just didn't somebody just pull a convention because of a bathroom issue in some other state i i mean this is a bigger bathroom issue if you live in san francisco i want you to know help is on the way mayor lundon breed was uh uh absolutely i'm quoting absolutely shocked after walking around town and seeing not only all of the poop but all of the used drug needles Now, how many needles are they giving out in San Francisco every month?

And it's like 500,000?

It's hundreds of thousands.

It's hundreds of thousands of needles they're giving out.

Well, Well, and some of those come back to be recycled, too.

I mean, certainly not all of them.

Well, they're supposed to return them, but you can't expect when you, you know, heroin users, they're not always dependable.

Well, the mayor has decided she's mad as hell, and she's not going to take it anymore.

So she's bringing out the big guns.

It's a new, really breed of a new hero.

I think we're going to be seeing this action hero on the

big screen soon.

It is the San Francisco version of Delta Force, or the Navy SEALs,

and they may already be patrolling your streets in San Francisco, dressed in hazmat suits and patrolling neighborhoods with the state-of-the-art patrol vehicle equipped with a steam cleaner and disinfectant.

They are the men and women of the San Francisco Poop Patrol.

Yep, this is our country.

Now, keep in mind, this story is not a parody.

This is true.

San Francisco has now allocated over $100 million

to combat the poop and needle problem.

Now you might be thinking to yourself, holy crap, $100 million?

That sounds like a colossal waste of a ton of money.

Really?

You can't get it done for cheaper than $100 million?

Well, remember, it's California and San Francisco.

I mean, the Bay Area, $100 million, you know, San Francisco residents.

You remember when $100 million,

you know, was a lot of money?

It doesn't go as far

as it used to in that hellhole of San Francisco.

$100 million in San Francisco, I think, can get you

maybe 175 square feet

of a beautiful apartment.

Probably,

I think somewhere between five and eight gallons of gas or the poop patrol.

So which would you spend it on?

The new San Francisco Public Works budget includes $72.5 million for street cleaning.

Get this one, $12 million

for housekeepers.

To get this, clean homeless.

encampments.

Well, first of all, I got one problem.

They're not really housekeepers if there is no home.

They're homeless.

So

let me see if I have this straight.

If I'm working in San Francisco, I'm just working at a deli, and I'm paying taxes to San Francisco, and I have to go home and clean my house.

I'm paying taxes so the people who come and poop in front of my store,

I'm paying taxes so they have a housekeeper.

Oh my gosh.

Also, $2.8 million for washing down the camps and removing any biohazard.

$2.3 million to steam the poop-infested streets.

$3.1 million for portable toilets.

$700,000 for a 10-member needle cleanup squad.

And of course, nearly $900,000 for the poop patrol.

Each member of the poop patrol takes over,

you ready?

Takes home over $184,000 in salary and benefits.

Now, I don't know.

I don't know what it would cost to get me to pick up human poop.

It would probably be a little more expensive than that.

But are you telling me?

That you can't find, oh, I don't know, group of teenagers, college students, anybody?

How about, how about, how about all of those progressives that just love people so much?

And they just want to do good.

And you're telling me that you can't get them for, I don't know, a bag of weed and

a hemp dress?

You can't get them to go clean the streets of the human feces?

Really?

$184,000 is what you're paying people to pick up poop?

If I may, I'd like to give some advice to to the new unit patrolling California streets

if you would like to clean up all the crap in your cities I would suggest that you start removing the human poop that you strangely in California call politicians the ones that are throwing all this money at a failed city and a failed policy one right after another

You can't really get rid of the the scent of poop by simply spraying something on it to cover up the scent.

You have to shovel it out.

May I suggest that you start shoveling out the Capitol building in Sacramento and then work your way down to every city government from there.

Wait a minute.

I got a name.

Poop Patrol for Progressive Politicians and Policy or the PPPPP.

You know, and I think there would be some funding from, you know, rich people all over the country.

I would make a donation right now to the PPPPP.

You know, if we could get one in Washington,

who's with me?

Keep an eye out and look for them coming soon to movie theaters near you, patrolling the streets of D.C.

and San Francisco.

The Human Poop Patrol.

Could we discuss this a little?

Why not?

So, yeah.

$184,000 a year for the Poop Patrol.

Of course.

Now, there are services in this service economy we now have.

Yes, yes.

Which will come to your home

and pick up the dog poop from your lawn

for like,

you know, you come over once a week and it's like maybe $50 a month.

You know, now I appreciate capitalism, but there is also another service that comes over and picks up the poop in your lawn from your dogs.

Okay.

It's called 12-year-old children.

Well, I don't know.

I explain to my kids, that's what I had you for.

But first of all, that seems like a really high-rate

to go pick up poop.

$184,000 a year gig?

That's a rate gig.

I would think that they're going to be- Let me ask you this.

How much would it take for me to get you into the poop industry right now?

I mean,

so am I employed or am I not employed?

Like, do I need to leave a job?

Well, you do need.

I mean, Google is no longer taking,

you know, they're no longer requiring college degrees.

So let's say you don't have a college degree.

Right.

You know, but you do have some prospects, but you're looking for a job.

How much does it take to get you into that?

I mean, 184 easily gets me into that gig, right?

Easily.

Easily.

I mean, 100K gets you into that gig, probably too.

There's a lot of...

You got to remember.

This is San Francisco.

People have things are much more expensive.

You're picking up poop.

That's what you're doing.

You're picking up poop.

Thank God there's people doing it, right?

I mean, you want to.

No, no, no.

I will thank God.

No, I will thank God when people stop crapping in the streets.

When did we become monkeys?

When did we like, you know, just drop the trout right here and just

leave a loaf on the doorstep?

When did we become those monkeys?

It's tough.

Because once the trends starts, it's like, you know, when you go to a concert or something and there's a bunch of parking spots and they're all filled, and that first person pulls up onto the curb and onto the grass.

Yeah.

And then five minutes later, you've got rows of cars on the grass.

The first time, I mean, it probably was a little strange, I'll give you.

The first time someone was like, you know what?

That bathroom's three feet away.

Instead, I'm going to go here.

That was probably a strange decision the first time it happened.

However, when it's just the thing, when you have an entire product line called Pooberoni,

which is, you know.

It's delicious.

In fact, it's a sponsor this half hour.

Don't mock it, Pooperoni.

Pooperoni on San Francisco streets.

When there's enough poop going on, at that point, you may need to fight back with employees.

$184,000 is a lot, though.

That feels to me like a, like, you know, a...

a

$15 an hour job.

It really does.

It really does.

Which is pretty hard.

I'm willing to give you the $15 wage on that one.

You're picking up poop.

It doesn't require you to think.

It just requires you to be willing to pick up somebody's poop.

No, it's gross.

It's a gross job.

I might even give you $20 an hour.

$20 an hour.

$20 an hour.

There you go.

$20 an hour is a lot less than, let's say, $20 an hour times $40,000 times, let's say we work every week.

It's $41,000.

It's about a $40,000 job.

Look, it's a good gig.

Now, in San Francisco, I mean, you know, I mean, maybe it's probably not going to go that far, but still, you're picking up poop, right?

Like, it's not a high-level job.

No, it doesn't take a lot of skill.

It's just like, I've got my degree in poop picking up.

Right.

There's some jobs.

Like, you have, you've talked about this before with certain things you have to do to cows on your farm, which to me sound like completely horrific

escapades.

You're talking about the pregnancy check.

Yes.

Yes.

Now, I can't think of an amount of money.

that you would have to pay me to do that one time in my life.

Although once you experience it, you are kind of like, you look at the guy with, with, with only one sleeve on his shirt and a giant glove that goes up to his shoulder, and you're kind of like, you can feel the baby inside.

He's like, oh, yeah.

And you're kind of, there's a piece of you that goes, I kind of want to feel that once, but then you, then you come to your cell.

You can come to your center like this.

No, no, no.

I don't want my hand in the butt of a cow.

So I think there is a premium you pay.

But see, that guy is not just like, he's not like, I just, they pay me to come here and just,

you know, stick my hand in the butt of a cow.

The guy has an education.

He's a doctor.

Right, yeah, right.

You pay him for more than just doing the thing that you don't want to do.

Right, but I think, I do think part of the premium that doctors receive, and this is all good humans and veterinarians and everything, is the ability to get over the really disgusting stuff you have to do.

Now, it's also you're healing people.

But like, there's people who go and change bedpans, right?

Yeah.

like the you know like the guys who do change bed pans it should be i mean we should look at things you oh you're changing bedpans and and and you're oh you have to clean up all the vomit too huh wow the guy who's doing breast augmentation i don't put them i mean i like to see their wages come a little closer to each other you know what i mean one's working on women's breasts and the other one's cleaning up vomit.

I thank God for both jobs personally.

I would say that they think there is that idea.

This is something we've talked about with the supposed gender wage gap, right?

Where women earn only 78 cents on the dollar.

We've heard that stat.

It's not true.

It's a B.S.

stat.

But one of the reasons it's a B.S.

stat is that guys tend to pick jobs where they are very dangerous.

You know, some in the middle of nowhere oil rig.

That is a dangerous taxing job, physical jobs, and also sometimes kind of the nasty jobs.

There's a lot of jobs out there that are really gross.

And one of the reasons the women have closed up that gender cap is because they've taken a lot of roles in healthcare that are kind of gross.

So there is a premium.

Like if you were picking up rappers, you know, candy wrappers after a concert, I think there's a premium you pay to the poop squad from that job.

Like if you're paying for it.

If you're working in Disneyland and you've got one of those little claw things and you're picking up the rappers and you're putting in the trash can, you're working at Disneyland, man.

You're picking up candy wrappers.

Relax.

You're picking up poop

human poop

you get a you get a bonus you get a bonus i'm not i'm not afraid to say you need to make a little extra more but 184 000 is too much might be a little bit too much is too much what would you say the difference is from the person who is uh

picking up dog poop for a living as opposed to someone picking up human poop i think there's a premium there too like if you're going to pay there is but once you're in the poop business maybe you don't notice i'd be interested to hear from any of you No, I think you'd notice.

I think there's a slight premium, but it's not the same kind of distance between the candy wrapper guy

and the dog poop guy.

Okay.

That's that.

Once you get into the poop business, you got a large spread.

Now, dog poop, human poop, there's still a spread there.

You know, it's like dog poop, human poop, elephant poop.

You know, you're just.

So elephant is worse?

I think only because of the quantity.

And it depends.

If you're following one animal in a parade, no.

If you're in Africa and you want to have everything clean and you're at an elephant refuge, yeah, I think there's a that's backbreaking labor.

That is.

That is, there's something, I think, different about animal than human.

I think, you know, just like.

Well, animals don't wear pants.

You expect them to poop on the streets or wherever they're standing.

Here in America,

we're now apparently just expecting humans to act like animals, and we're cool with it.

And the great thing is, it's job creation.

If this isn't the perfect example

of

job creation in a progressive world, I don't know what is.

Hey, we can hire more housekeepers because every homeless camp is going to now have housekeepers.

So they can't be expected to, you know, clean up their

sleeping bag.

We got to lay that out.

Maybe we can leave a little mint on their pillow, too.

We're creating jobs.

We, okay, so they're pooping all over the street.

This is a job creator.

This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.

In an interview yesterday, Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, an sworn enemy of the President Trump, made a fool of herself.

Now that in itself is not news, but the specifics of her statement all started with a goofy, vacant grin and are really disconcerting.

Here she is in an interview with host John Berman.

I'm so sorry for the family here, and I know this is hard not only for the family, but for the people in her community, the people throughout Iowa.

But one of the things we have to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.

Last month, I went down to the border and I saw where children had been taken away from their mothers.

I met with those mothers who had been lied to, who didn't know where their children were, who hadn't had a chance to talk to their children, and there was no plan for how they would be reunified with their children.

Just last month she was there.

Now, she wasn't there back in 2014, I know, because I was there.

She didn't want to pay any attention to it when it was happening under Obama, but she was there, and she was talking to the mothers who had their children ripped out of their arms.

Now, there's a lot to unpack here.

First, let's start with the line.

You know, the things that we have to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses where the real problems are.

Can I ask you what that really means?

What does that mean?

What does that even mean?

Because in this past week alone, ICE, which people like Elizabeth Warren, want to abolish.

She compares them to Nazis.

She wants to abolish them.

In this last week, ICE has hauled off an illegal immigrant charged with murder in Mexico.

At the request of Mexico, we were tracking him.

And how was that reported in the press?

That was reported that, oh, this poor guy was just taking his wife.

She was ready to have a baby she was going in for a scheduled c-section

it wasn't like she's like oh my i got now i gotta drive myself to the hospital too she was going in for a c-section

he was a murderer

would you have said oh you know what oh geez i

crap i didn't know jeffrey dahmer was taking his wife to the hospital let him go let him go have the birth.

We'll try to catch up to him later.

He's a murderer.

They also got lit rid of a literal Nazi.

Something that the Obama administration couldn't get done.

Donald Trump's administration put pressure on Germany to take back a Nazi.

This guy's been living here since World War II.

He killed people in concentration camps.

Now, the world is so concerned about Nazis Nazis in America.

We've got 24 stupid people

who are protesting in the street and you have a literal Nazi and somehow the Nazi organization, as you call it, ICE,

somehow or another they got him out.

I don't even understand it.

If anything, the system has failed in not preventing the entry of an illegal immigrant who murdered Molly Tibbett.

How dare you say that?

Are you saying that all immigrants are murdered?

Of course I'm not.

In no rational or

reasonable world is anybody actually thinking that I'm saying all immigrants are rapists.

I'm saying here's a guy who, I don't know why, raped this woman and killed her.

And you know what?

He shouldn't have been here in the first place.

Molly Tibbets could could have been hit by a bus.

She might have died some other way.

Maybe it was her time, but it was not her time to go in that way

if he wasn't here.

Then she says, Last month I went to the border and I saw where children had been taken away from their mothers.

What about...

What about Molly Tibbetts?

Wasn't she ripped out of the arms of her loving family?

Here's this exceptional girl.

She didn't say a final farewell.

Her parents didn't take her to a dangerous place where they all knew they could be separated.

Molly most likely didn't even say goodbye as the front door closed behind her because she was just going for a jog.

Here's Molly ripped out of the arms of her family and taken away from her mother permanently.

There is no paperwork to work out.

There's nothing that might have been misplaced and soon they'll be reunited.

She's gone until they're reunited on death.

And it wasn't done by

a group of people who are just overzealous.

They were she was ripped out of the arms of her family by somebody who shouldn't have been in the country in the first place and is a true monster.

I think we need immigration laws that focus on people who pose a real threat.

You mean like murderers?

Like murderers who murder young women, maybe?

I don't think mamas and babies are the place we should be spending our resources.

Tell that to the mother of Molly Tibbett.

You see,

we're talking over each other.

And we're fighting

a straw man.

That's it.

There's nobody in America that disagrees.

What was it?

8%?

20% maximum?

I can't remember what it was.

Very low percent of people who said, oh, yeah, no, no, no, I think what ICE is doing is great.

I think the policy that Obama started of just ripping them out from their parents and just shoving them all in different jails and cages.

I don't think there was nobody,

virtually nobody, that held that belief.

But shouldn't Molly Tibbetts' death signify the need for more comprehensive,

a more comprehensive system that keeps people out that are criminals?

You know, the guy who is taking his wife to the hospital.

This guy could have come through the front door, we could have checked,

and he could have passed and he would have been good.

And then he might have murdered Molly Tibbetts.

That will happen in life.

But shouldn't we at least

shouldn't we at least try?

You know,

MS-13

kills four

times the number of kids.

They've killed four times the number of people that have been lost in school shootings.

Four times the number.

Why don't we care about them?

Warren speaks only in negatives.

She's criticizing Trump.

She uses the tragedy of a young woman who was murdered and says, yeah, well, that was bad, but

no,

that was horrifying, full stop.

But in Warren's world, the man who murdered her is himself a victim.

This is the postmodern system of anti-logic that is getting dangerous.

People are dying.

Americans are dying.

Members of Congress are more concerned about the evils

of having a southern border

than the actual strife of people on the border because they weren't there when it was about their side.

I was.

They care more about destroying the other side than actual compassion.

It's Thursday, August 23rd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

You know, I spent the last two years,

I spent the last five years,

but particular attention

in the last two

to figure, to figure this out.

Okay, I remember...

I remember trying to figure out around 2004, what the hell happened to us?

How did we go from this nation with our founders

to this nation that is so far removed from the Constitution?

What happened?

And

I found progressivism.

And everyone told me Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century didn't matter.

And I made my case every day, much to the chagrin of many people.

in the audience at first going, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if they're liberal or progressive.

It does matter.

And now I see,

now I see my country doing exactly what I feared.

I take my share, in fact, I think I take more than my fair share of responsibility for

what's happening in the country.

And I'm willing to do that because I know you know the truth.

I know if you watched me and listened to me, you heard me say more about peace and coming together and trying to understand.

You heard those words from me more than anyone, left or right.

So you know the truth.

I don't have to defend it with you.

And I'm willing to take more than my fair share.

If that's what it will take to

get people to listen,

Everybody wants to hate each other.

I don't.

And I don't care what I have to do to get you to disarm enough to be able to listen again.

Because we're a nation that's not listening to one another.

And I know this firsthand because I didn't listen to you.

during the election.

I didn't understand.

And instead of doing the human thing, I looked at you as a group.

But it's so strange.

I heard Don Imos

sign off.

His last broadcast.

Every broadcaster in America, every podcaster in America should listen to Don Imus' last 10 minutes.

It's so revealing.

Here's a guy who was a legend.

Is a legend.

A guy who literally changed radio, changed broadcast.

extraordinarily, extraordinarily bright and talented,

and a good man.

And as in his last five or ten minutes, he wept

as he tried to convince himself,

look at the good we did.

Look at what we did, we did together.

The most important thing he said

was, I'm not going to miss radio.

I'm not going to miss this show.

I'm going to miss you.

When he said that, man, my eyes filled with tears because I knew exactly what he was talking about.

You and I

feel like we're friends.

You know me.

I don't know you.

And people always say to me when they meet,

I feel kind of bad and weird because we don't really know each other, but I know everything about you.

And I always feel the same way.

I know, but I think I know you.

Even though I don't, people who are listening, many of them wildly disagree.

Some, I would imagine, are in a coma right now, and they just have the radio on, so, you know, the person will feel like there's somebody there.

By the way, you're doing great.

You're gonna make it.

But the people who come out, I feel like I know you.

And I don't think we're different.

I know what your heart is.

And I know what you.

I know your intent.

You know mine.

To do good.

To fix this.

To free people.

To help people.

But we've gone off the rails, and I don't mean us, the entire nation has gone off the rails.

and that doesn't seem to be our objective anymore our objective now is to stop the other guy and that's not gonna work

i i want to talk to you here

and i would i would love to hear your response facebook twitter on the phone today at five o'clock i'm gonna do a uh just a half hour of phone calls and i i i i want to hear your voice on

Look,

the Molly Tibbetts story is important.

And then I introduce Elizabeth Warren into it, and it cheapens it.

But that's important, too.

Kavanaugh.

Look what they're doing to Kavanaugh.

Now they're saying that they're going to have to delay the Kavanaugh vote because, well, I mean, you can't do that with Paul Manafort.

What?

What are you talking about?

Universities are welcoming their students back soon and they all have plans on how to talk to their students about the statues that might be around the campus.

All of these things are important.

All of these things are really easy to talk about.

But does it further anything?

We find ourselves in a country now that

in some ways nothing matters, right?

How many times have you said or heard a friend say, it's like nothing matters anymore.

It's like the truth doesn't matter.

Decency doesn't matter.

Nothing matters.

They're crapping in the streets of San Francisco.

Our president is lying.

This president or the last president.

And they don't care.

The death of shame.

Nobody cares about shame.

There's no embarrassment anymore on anything it's like nothing matters and yet at the same time

everything matters to the max continuing our conversation on what's important and what we should be talking about

and i mean me and you

we're eating around the edges We're just, we're not even into the pie.

We're just all eating the crust.

That's it.

Racism.

Gender issues.

Destruction of the family.

Free speech.

Violence.

What is causing all of this?

Where's this coming from?

And

we're amplifying it because we're concentrating on even smaller stories.

We've made our politicians our gods.

We've made our political parties our gods.

And we've done it mainly without thinking.

Be honest.

Be honest.

Now, maybe, maybe, maybe conservatives have thought a little bit more about it because they've had their back pushed against the wall for so long

that you've probably put some thought into it.

But for the left, many times, not all times, but for the left, many times, you haven't really even heard the other side.

You didn't even know there was another side.

And we're fighting to the death over it.

Let me ask you what's more important.

The Paul Manafort trial, which had nothing to do with Donald Trump, and I'm not saying that

because, you know, I'm on the right.

I'm saying that because it's true.

What they convicted him of had nothing to do.

It all happened before he got together with Donald Trump.

So what's more important?

Here's a bad guy went to jail.

That's a really good story one day.

That's it.

Really bad guy went to jail.

Justice served.

Perfect.

But we're making this into, this will go on for months.

Is that more important than

the Christians that are being slaughtered all over the world?

The Christians that are being rounded up.

Christians that are still in slavery.

Christians that are being slaughtered because they won't bow down.

The Christians in

the Christians in Asia.

165 churches were just burned in China by the Chinese government.

Anybody care?

Anybody care?

You know that they just institute a law.

If you have a Bible, you're going to prison?

How about this one?

How about the Muslims in China?

One million...

Hear this, one

million Muslims have already been rounded up in China, and they're put in concentration camps.

We have the photos of the concentration camps.

You can find them.

You can see them online.

It's China.

1 million.

Add five more million, and you've got the Holocaust.

Why are we talking about that?

South Africa.

Is there a genocide going on?

Or is it the buildup of a genocide?

What's really happening there?

I don't know.

The loss of freedom of speech, where both sides are celebrating when

somebody who they don't like loses their platform or their ability to speak.

This should be a

all-hands on deck warning.

We should be hearing the Klaxon every single day.

If one person loses their right to speak and be heard, we will be next.

Nobody is really talking about the destruction of the Western way of life.

That you have now one political party who is supporting

a group of people who say they want to

destroy capitalism

and get away from capitalism,

they are marching in the streets, no borders, no walls, no USA at all.

You have a political party and a media that is supporting that.

Well, I think that's probably the biggest story that maybe we should be talking about, maybe in the history of our republic.

We apparently have half of a country that is either ignorant or a part of

an effort to destroy capitalism and our way of life and to destroy our Constitution.

In their words, not mine, not hyperbole.

Shouldn't we be talking?

Isn't that more important than Manafort or whatever I led the hour with, with

Elizabeth Warren?

Isn't that more important?

All we're doing is arguing about Trump.

And the last eight years, all we did was argue about Obama.

Didn't work, did it?

Isn't this the definition of insanity?

Should we argue some more about Trump, or should we look for the root cause?

Because I know what the root cause is.

And once you find it, you will be amazed.

You will be, your eyes, the scales will fall off your eyes,

just as they did when you really first started to learn about progressivism.

And this one isn't protected.

This one, this one is wide open.

This one

will not be accepted by the mass of the people in blue states, or I'm sorry, red states, who are Democrats.

They will not accept this.

And it's called postmodernism.

Do you want to know

why we're talking about the destruction of capitalism?

Understand postmodernism.

You want to know why people are calling white people all kinds of names and white people are not allowed to defend themselves?

Postmodernism.

You want to know why there's 175 different genders?

Postmodernism.

You want to know why the destruction of the family seems to be a number one target?

Postmodernism.

You want to know why freedom of speech, why people on the right, the people who believe in the Constitution,

those people are being demonized and being deplatformed and are called all kinds of names and are not listened to and not welcome on any campus.

Do you want to know why?

Postmodernism.

You want to know why we are living in a world that no longer makes any sense, where reason doesn't apply anymore.

Logic doesn't apply.

Only violence applies.

Postmodernism.

It's why nothing matters.

And we are fighting a fight now, the old fight.

We're fighting it like we've always fought it.

You're not even fighting the real enemy.

You don't even know what the real enemy is.

It's like trying to fight in Germany and not even being aware of what Nazis even believed or what their goals were.

Not just not speaking their name, not knowing anything about them.

You're never going to defeat them.

But the problem is, how can we know them when we don't even know ourselves?

We don't even know ourselves anymore.

Who are we?

Really?

Who are we?

I've really had a tough time with God recently.

I feel like I need baptism all over again.

I can't make heads or tails of

my mistakes.

I can't make heads or tails of of the path anymore.

I I don't I I d I I just I've

I believe in him.

I know who he is.

Perhaps in the for the first time in my life, I'm actually beginning to be humble, because I don't

know who I am in some ways.

Because the the things that I believed,

all of the important principles, I still believe.

I just don't know how to

express them.

I don't know how to do my job.

I don't know how to make a difference without being a problem.

I heard a really important phrase the other day:

at the center of all human suffering,

that is where you will find God.

I know that's true.

And let me break it down for people who don't necessarily believe in God.

What is God?

Love, compassion, empathy,

kindness,

rational thought, reason.

If there is is a God, he's the best scientist and the best mathematician out there.

Because look at the exactness of the universe.

Do you find reason, ration, compassion, kindness, empathy?

Are you finding that on Twitter?

Because I'm not.

Are you finding that on Facebook?

Because I'm not.

Find that on CNN or Fox or even on this show?

I'm trying to find God,

and that's what God is to me.

And God is also my pal.

And I miss

my best friend.

And I know enough about him to know that he hasn't moved, so I must have.

And if I want to find him,

we have to find ways

to at least empathize with human suffering.

And if we can lose ourselves in others,

we won't be so outraged every day by the nonsense.

If we can just

focus on things

that matter,

perhaps we will stop fighting about all of the things that mean nothing.

I care about the Christians in the Middle East.

I know you do too.

Do you realize

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you are the model?

I care about what's happening to the blacks and the whites in South Africa.

I care about the Muslims in China.

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We've been trying to get our arms around what's happening in South Africa for a while, and we have not

put anybody on the air about it because the people who generally seem to be reporting on this have been unreliable.

I don't trust them at all.

So I've been really torn because I've seen interviews and I've seen things that are happening that may or may not be happening.

Meanwhile, the press is not covering at all.

Well, I understand that coming from the press and I don't trust the press at all.

So what the hell is happening?

Yesterday, we reached out to a farmer and we could barely understand him.

We worked with him yesterday to see if we could do an interview with him, you know, make him understandable.

And he just, his accent is so thick, you can't even understand him.

But I wanted to tell you that what he said to us, what he was going to say was, my land is being taken away, but it's, it's more of a

eminent domain thing.

And he doesn't know of any white farmers, he's a white farmer, that have been killed at all.

We have somebody else who's saying, oh, no, there are lots.

But we don't know.

We don't know.

Here's what I do know for sure.

The rhetoric in South Africa is getting dangerous.

It is talking about slitting the throats of whiteness.

This is the kind of rhetoric that, when it comes from top leadership,

it changes everything.

Beyond that, violence, I don't know yet.

And I'm not going to bring you something until I'm pretty sure that that's a reliable source.

On the other front, one thing I can bring to you is they are talking about taking land from farmers and giving it away.

They say to the people, but it'll be to their pals, because that's the way it always is.

And so they will give it to people who know nothing about farming, and South Africans will starve.

That's the way it always plays out.

Alexander

Hammond, he is a contributor for Young Voices.

He's been following this

and he just wrote an article, This is How South Africa could become the next Zimbabwe welcome to the program Alexander how are you hi Glenn thanks having me you bet so tell me what you know is happening and your concerns

okay so what's currently happening the way I see it is Shirley Ramaposa who is the current president of South Africa

his party is the ANC the African National Congress

and on the 31st of July last month he said that they're going to change the constitution.

So section 25 of the constitution currently says if a land is taken away from a property owner by the government, compensation must be just and equitable.

Now, Ralph Poser says they're changing the amendment to outline more clearly the conditions under which they can expropriate land, essentially meaning that this just and equitable clause, which expropriate which compensation must be, is going to be taken away so it can mean expropriation with no compensation.

So that's the background to what's happening recently as farms are beginning to be seized.

And

the rhetoric surrounding, especially coming from the EFF,

is disturbing.

The president is basically a democratic socialist, is he not?

He's a full-out socialist.

Okay.

He never joined the Communist Party, but he is a full-out socialist.

Right.

And he's, he's, I mean, he was, you know, campaigning for universal tuition, universal health care, universal food and universal clothing, I think, a basic minimum income.

I mean, all the stuff they're campaigning for here.

But the way he really got into office was

playing on the white versus black.

Yeah,

there's no illusion that Ramapos is some dictator who's suddenly taking over South South Africa and he's been forcing his will on the people.

He ran on the promise that when he comes to power, if he was to come to power, he would be taking the white land and giving no compensation in return.

He calls it

this healing the historic wound giving us.

But I think even more concerning is that there's no illusion that Ralaposta is and in the past has been very racist towards the whites in South Africa.

There's a well-recorded case of that.

He actually compared the strategy of dealing whites in South Africa to that of boiling frogs.

Now, in this, I mean he said you must raise the temperature slowly so the frogs don't realize what's happening, because if the temperature is raised too quickly, the frogs jump out of the water.

Then, by the time a frog realizes it's dying, it's too late to escape the pot.

This is the current president of South Africa.

All right, let's stick to the devil we do know, and that is the idea of land distribution.

So

I don't know why people don't get this, because it didn't work in Russia.

It didn't work in Zimbabwe.

It never, ever works.

Can you give us a little history on that?

Yeah, so it seems right now they're following the exact exact path of Zimbabwe

because in 2000

Zimbabwe under Mugabe started taking a white farmers' land.

And from my research, the result was essentially threefold.

Violence increased, five white farmers died, and a dozen more black farm workers were killed because they were associating with the white farmers.

Food production plummeted.

Food production fell by 60% within 10 years.

Zimbabwe used to be called the breadbasket of Africa,

not anymore.

Exports were down over a billion, and then they induced hyperinflation.

And the hyperinflation got so bad in the economy that it averaged 98% a day at its peak in July of 2018.

And it seems very likely that South Africa will be following this course.

Violence is slowly increasing.

The economy is abysmal right now.

And some predict it is heading towards hyperinflation if these

if the trend continues.

So, Alexander, have you had any thoughts on

well, for instance, I mean, here we are watching Venezuela just,

I mean, just imploding, people starving, people dying violence

a ruthless dictator

and and we're seeing this march to socialism and this march to redistribution and people that are your age are seemingly loving it and embracing it when every single example of it being tried fails horribly

why is this become why is this spreading and becoming so popular

So that's a great question.

Obviously, I think it's been known for decades that the youth always go towards socialism.

But in the case of South Africa, I don't think it's out the ANC, I don't think they're instilling this policy out of ignorance.

I think we're fully aware what the economic consequences will be.

I believe that they're instilling these policies to gain the support for the next election, which is next year.

And I think the ANC will continue to push these populist policies in order to boost their popularity.

Marion Chupi of the Cader Institute has recently said

the

South African parliament,

they're instilling this policy.

It doesn't rest in ignorance, but it rests in their desire for survival.

And they essentially see it as a way, because they can't control the economy right now.

They've been doing awful in a lot of ways.

So they see this as their way to appeal to the South African people.

Is this the ANC,

which is the party of the president,

they have are they

they're kind of partnering with the EFF, which is the really dangerous racist group.

Is it the same kind of story that's happening here with the Democrats and and

you know, Antifa?

Um I'm not sure it's that bad

their partnership at all, because currently the ANC in the South African Parliament has 62% of the

has a majority of 62%.

So it's not like they need any more support from these more extremist parties.

Perhaps they could be trying to take some of the economic freedom fighters vote away from them by following some of their policies, but

the EFF isn't extremely popular in South Africa by any means.

So I'm not sure we can make that comparison quite yet, but it seems likely they could be taking some votes.

Quickly,

any evidence that you have found that anything like

white

black violence killing lots of farmers is actually happening?

Right, sure.

So this is a really difficult issue.

Eight hours ago, the president, actually slightly longer than that now, about 10 hours ago, the president tweeted

about the South Africa land reform and that he's going to get the Secretary of State to look into it.

But in this tweet, he said it was a large-scale killing of farmers.

Now, I don't think that's quite accurate, saying large-scale.

The problem with South Africa right now is there's no official numbers are available.

The only the best we've got is reports from the South African police and the Transvaal Agricultural Union, which is just a union representing the interest of farmers.

And the latest data we do have is from January to March 2018.

And it indicates that there is a slight there is an increase in attacks on the white farms.

And in this three month period, there are 109 attacks and 15 murders on the white farms, meaning one white farmer is killed every five days.

That's pretty significant.

That's from our reports for sure.

That's it's it's it's devastating, but claiming the president claiming it's a large-scale killing is down to your definition, but

it's problematic because there's no official numbers.

Good.

Alexander, thank you so much, Alexander Hammond.

You can follow him at,

is it just Alexander Hammo?

Yeah, Alexander Hammond, at Alexander H-A-M-M-O.

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Here's what she had to say about the trial.

I don't think I need to hide behind anything.

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She was, yeah, I mean, a huge Trump fan and said that there's 18 total charges against Manafort, eight of which he was found guilty, 10 of which were mistrials.

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Yeah.

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