'Stop the # Mob Mentality' - 8/23/18

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Glen back.

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

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, 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 a bathroom issue in some other state?

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 London Breed was

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, 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, you know, 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 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 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 PPPP.

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.

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.

It's Thursday, August 23rd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

Stu just looked at me and he said, 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.

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

It's called 12-year-old children.

Well, I don't want to.

I want to 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 gig?

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.

No, I will thank God when people stop crapping 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 start,

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 on the 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.

Right.

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 Pooperoni,

which is, you know, delicious.

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

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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

$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.

Right.

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.

That's gross.

It's a gross job.

I might even give you $20 an hour.

$20 an an hour twenty dollars an hour there you go twenty dollars an hour is a lot less than let's say twenty dollars an hour times forty times let's say we work every week that's forty one thousand dollars

a forty thousand dollar job look it's a good gig now 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 it's not a high level no it doesn't take a lot of skill it's not like i've got my degree in poop picking up right there's some 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 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.

And he's like, oh, yeah.

And

there's a piece of of you that goes i kind of want to feel that once but then you then you come to yourself

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 i just they pay me to come here and just uh uh you know stick my hand in the butt of a cow the guy has an education he's a doctor right yeah right this is

you 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 that's like the you know like the guys who do change bed pans It should be, I mean, we should look at things.

Oh, you're changing bedpans 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, but I would say that

I 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 BS stat, but one of the reasons it's a BS stat is that guys tend to pick jobs where they're 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, 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 wrapper 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 bonus.

You get a bonus.

I'm not afraid to say you need to make a little extra more.

But $184,000

might be a little bit too less is too much.

What would you say the difference is from the person who is

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 for a poop poop, I think 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 back-breaking labor.

That is.

There's something, I think, different about animals than human.

I think, like, you know, just like well, animals don't wear pants, you expect them to poop on the streets or wherever they're standing.

Um, here in America, um, 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.

Okay, so they're pooping all over the street.

This is a job creator.

It's important.

That's why I don't live in California.

It's basically Paul Krugman's theory, right?

You know, if an alien was threatening the earth, we would increase our economy because we would all go together and go crazy to build up our society.

It's the broken windows theory, right?

Well, what if we do that?

No, no, no.

No, we just break the windows and then we can have people replace the windows.

That's good for the economy.

The broken windows thing.

That's a conservative idea.

Broken windows.

Yeah, you see people pick up windows and they, they rocks and they break a window on an empty street.

Okay.

We're not talking about broken windows anymore.

We're talking about people crapping on the street.

Well, if we just pick up the crap, maybe they won't crap on the street.

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Glenn Beck.

Well, we apparently have struck a nerve.

A lot of people are.

A lot of people are tweeting and calling about the Pooh Patrol in California.

At World World of Stu and at Glenn Beck.

Taylor writes, maybe the poop patrol is what Obama was going for when he said shovel-ready jobs.

Very good.

Possible.

Dee writes, I have a suggestion.

What about the next person we see pooping on the street?

Instead of arresting, they have to pick up the poop until we get to the next pooping person who will have to help, and then we will have a poop brigade for free.

I like that.

This is good.

I like that.

Jeff writes, later on our show about poop economics, special guest Thomas Sowell, real highbrow guys.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

This is interesting.

Don't think we didn't realize that.

I mean, I shut off the mic and I looked at Stu and I said, so what important things did you talk about today?

You know, the economics of poop patrols.

Well, you'll feel better from Gordon's comment.

I've been listening to you guys for over a decade.

This morning is the most informative radio broadcast you've ever done.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We appreciate it.

And Drew says, elephant poop smells incredibly worse than human poop.

Like the smell lingers for days after removal.

So I am giving a premium.

You are giving a premium.

I am giving a premium on that.

But I still still don't think it's worth $184,000 a year.

Welcome to the program.

Glad you're here.

A lot to cover today.

We are going to cover the situation in South Africa.

I want to do something extraordinarily different next hour.

I invite you to

join me on this.

I need your help on something.

He's got a lot of human poop in his backyard.

He really needs to.

And I don't have $184,000 to pay a person to do it.

Also, we should get to Asia Argento a little bit.

This story is kind of fascinating to me.

And I was joking on Twitter last night about how I've noticed that CNN is spending a lot more time talking about Donald Trump paying off people to be silent about sex than the Asia Argento situation where they're paying off people to have sex.

And obviously,

he's the president of the United States.

They're going to spend more time on it.

Though, I mean, I think arguably the Asia Argento thing is the number two story right now behind what's going on with Trump.

And it was almost not mentioned at all in the hours that I watched CNN yesterday.

And I found it interesting that if you think about what we've seen over the past year, year and a half, you have CNN, who has pretty much constantly been talking about, one, the Me Too movement, and two,

Donald Trump paying off people to be silent about sexual relationships.

During that entire time,

one of their employees,

Anthony Bourdain,

was in the middle of the intersection between those two issues.

Now, Anthony Bourdain obviously killed himself and

may have played a role in that.

Who knows?

I mean, it's a terrible situation.

But he paid of his own money $380,000, which by the way, you'll note is more than Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal combined to keep this kid, who was a kid, he's not now a kid, but he was 17 years old at the time, silent about a Me Too affair.

So the same exact situation when it comes to...

No, I mean, you know, look what Asia did.

Look what Asia did.

She used Anthony.

Now, just hear me out.

I have no

insight on the relationship.

I have no insight on the relationship.

I have no insight on his mental health.

And

suicide is caused by

illness.

You're ill.

You're really ill.

But it is helped by feeling trapped as well.

He's working at a news organization that is zeroed in on paying people off to keep them silent.

And me too.

And me too.

And here's Asia.

And she says, oh, I'm being blackmailed.

I don't know if she asked him or he volunteered.

Worse if she asked him, but bad if he volunteered because he pays $380,000 and then has to live in that world

with the cognitive dissidence of these things are bad, but I just did it because I know her and I love her.

That's, I mean, I don't know how.

I don't know how he's very difficult to deal with.

Really bad.

And, you know, I don't think CNN was aware of this at the time.

But I mean, it's an interesting study as far as journalism, right?

I mean, here is an organization that is

on the air, constantly hammering the Me Too movement.

And

look,

we all want the end goals of what is the generalism of Me Too, which is women get respected and don't have to deal with sexual abuse and assault and harassment.

We all want that.

All people.

All people want.

All people should.

And all people should.

Men, boys, girls, women.

Nobody should deal with that.

But that storyline is being protected by one of their employees.

Here is a massive part of this story that is sitting there.

One of the founders of the Me Too movement and the most serious allegations against Harvey Weinstein.

Now, there's lots of them, so there's plenty still there.

But the most serious allegations.

And at the time they're covering the story,

one of CNN's employees is paying $380,000 to silence an accuser of the person involved.

And

what's

just as bad, if not worse, is now that it has come out, they're not talking about it.

They don't want to talk about Anthony Bourdain's.

They don't want to say, what really happened with Anthony Bourdain?

Here's a guy in our own midst who was doing this.

They're not examining that at all.

Right.

And look, it's a tough situation.

The guy died tragically.

He He was a very beloved figure.

They loved him at CNN.

Journalists love the guy.

Right, which is why he'll get a pass.

I, you know, if, if, if I did this, if I paid $380,000 to somebody and I died same way, do you think they wouldn't look into me?

They sure, they surely would.

Of course they would.

They surely would.

Of course they would.

Yeah.

And, you know, look.

But that's, but see, that's the problem.

That's the problem.

We are no longer using reason anymore.

There's a great story,

a conversation between the president and editor-in-chief and the senior cultural writer for Cut.

I don't even know what CUT is, but I saw this story and I started reading it.

I want you to listen to this.

So, Stella Bugby, she is the editor-in-chief.

She says, you know, one of the things I find most interesting about these allegations is they trigger a lot of fears in me.

It's the same sickening feeling I have when I hear about false rape accusations.

They're rare but devastating to all future accusers.

I feel like screaming, this doesn't mean all rape accusations are fake.

And it makes me simultaneously defensive and despairing.

Will people who were anti-hashtag me too use this as an attempt to prove that it was all BS?

I just want you to listen to this.

Because remember,

we are either going to add to the chaos or we're going to find a way through the chaos.

And if

you believe that we are a culture in trouble, then I don't want to add to the chaos.

I want to try to heal and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to heal within the parameters of my principles.

So let me listen.

Let's listen to these two women talk back and forth with a different ear.

And maybe

Somebody else who's on their side will listen to us with a different ear.

Now listen, one of the things I find interesting triggers a lot of fears in me.

The same sickening feeling I have when I hear about fake rape accusations.

They're rare but devastating to all future accusers.

Yes.

Now let's flip that around.

She says, I feel like screaming, this doesn't mean all rape accusations are fake.

Yes.

Now we have a fear when you see something like the lacrosse team and the just and Al Sharptons of the world coming down and politicizing it and making it all about race and rape and everything else, we feel like saying, wait a minute, all of these aren't true.

They're not all true.

Let the process work.

Not all men are rapists.

Not all victims are women.

What did you do to heal the wounds

of

the team

that was verbally, maliciously raped.

The Duke La Crosse team.

Has anybody even thought about what their lives are like now?

No, yeah.

I have a friend of a friend of mine was on the team, and she tells me that he,

even though he was not actually there, he was just on the Duke La Crosse team.

He was never accused of anything, any wrongdoing at all.

And he left with, you know, Duke and Duke La Crosse.

He was, you know, mentioned anytime you Google his name, he'd come up as the Duke La Crosse team.

That was the big thing that he did.

That's a huge accomplishment, by the way.

It's one of the best teams in the country.

And for years, he struggled to get a job after college.

Duke's a great school.

He had no, even wasn't even accused of wrongdoing.

But just because Duke lacrosse was

what you got when you Googled the guy, he couldn't find a good job for years afterwards.

Sure.

So

let's understand her point.

Her point is:

don't let this discredit the ones that are real, Okay.

Don't even let this discredit what Harvey Weinstein did to Asia.

Right.

Okay.

Don't let it discredit that.

I 100% agree with that.

Totally.

But

what we also have to talk about is the mob mentality, the hashtag mentality.

When you make an accusation, it doesn't mean it's true.

And so if we have a system of justice, you let that system of justice work.

Otherwise, you're going to destroy lives that shouldn't be destroyed.

Let's calm down and use reason and ration, not

hashtags,

not mob mentality.

Stop with the torch.

And process versus generalism is a problem we're dealing with right now.

It is.

I have not heard anyone on, you know, what we'd say our side of the argument, which would be asking for process.

I just want a process.

I want every single person who did these things to go to jail.

But I want a process before we get there.

I've never heard anyone on that side of the argument say, what we want is no women to be believed.

What we want is all men to get away with it.

What we want is every accusation to be dismissed.

The problem on the, I have heard that on the other side.

What we want is all women to be believed.

What we want is all women to be honored and automatically trusted.

And that, well, I don't think it's the majority of that side of the movement,

it's a significant enough piece of it that makes you very, very hesitant to embrace the movement as a whole.

The goals, yes, but the movement as a whole has some

because the movement has post-modernist roots,

because there are people in there who they don't care about reason,

they don't care about it, they're trying to destroy the hierarchy, They're trying to destroy the Western white cisgender

hierarchy.

Well, I can't join you on that.

I can't join you on that.

I can join you on, hey, let's have a system and I'll stand with you.

You're a victim of somebody.

I'll stand with you.

And I will believe you.

Enough to make sure that you are heard and that the process works.

But I'm not going to believe you and take you at your word because you say it's true.

I need a process.

You know, everybody has to be innocent until proven guilty.

That doesn't mean that you're guilty because you stood up and said, hey, this person did it.

And that's when people attack that person, like it happens on all sides.

When they attack somebody, sometimes you can go, okay, I get it.

I get it.

I mean, they're really not credible.

But other times, they are very credible.

And we have to have a process to go through.

And I'm for that.

This article continues to talk about, you know,

this story, maybe where just we didn't pay attention to her and we dismissed some of these warning signs because she was our friend.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

That happens to all of us.

And that's happening.

That is the crux of the issue in America today.

The press believes one side.

They believe that

that one side is right and the other side is wrong.

And anything that helps the wrong side, they won't cover or say.

Anything that hurts the right side, they won't cover or say.

That's the problem.

That's why Donald Trump was was elected.

We need a process that

reason is fixed in her seat and no one plays favorites.

Now that's really hard to do when you're a nation of men and not a nation of laws.

That's why we broke away from the king.

Because if you were in favor with the court,

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I saw something from the Australian news agency.

They have a 60 Minutes program that's about to premiere.

And it looks like they read my book.

Listen to this.

Yeah, it was a bit unrehearsed.

I, you know, it was off-the-cuff comment, but it's inappropriate for air.

It shouldn't have been on radio, you know, 100%.

It was a good look at Rooster.

About four years of age.

The thing is,

as I said, we've got no income now.

And there's no real light at the end of the tunnel of when that will change or when that will be.

Look out, Australia.

60 minutes will make your blood boil.

It's a big coga.

Welcome to the age of outrage.

She's sort of become a blood sport.

Where one stupid move

can destroy you.

I'm sorry.

Now, Yasmin upset the entire country when she posted on Facebook on Anzac Day.

I think we've got to accept stupidity as a constant of human life.

We all do stupid things.

I'm quite happy to remove this.

Now, science proves we're getting high on hate.

What a crocker shit.

60 minutes Sunday.

Isn't that amazing?

Wow, they could have closed.

That is addicted to outrage.

Yeah, they're high on hate, addicted to outrage.

I mean, if science proves it, it absolutely does.

And you'll find it in my new book, Addicted to Outrage, and why it's a huge problem if we want to save the Western world.

We must, must surrender and admit to ourselves, hey,

I'm an American and I've got a problem.

I'm addicted to outrage.

Glenn Beck.

In an interview yesterday, Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren, and 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 a 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,

now I got to 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.

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 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 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 rapist.

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 Tibbetts 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 Molly Tibbetts?

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

Here's 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 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

and they're more 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 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 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 in America, every podcaster in America should listen to Don Imas's 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 going to work.

I want to talk to you here,

and I would love to hear your response Facebook, Twitter, on the phone today at 5 o'clock.

I'm going to do

just a half hour of phone calls, and 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 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?

Let me pick it up there when we come back.

You know, we were talking on the

air yesterday in the podcast, The News and Why It Matters.

And

we were talking about impeachment.

And, you know,

if it was just a simple majority, which it's not,

in the Senate, you could see the Senate impeaching and convicting Donald Trump because there's enough squishy Republicans that would just would not want to...

they'll go uh and diss their own base

because they don't want their world disrupted

you saw that with the you know Obamacare yeah overturn and we were talking about um

that's civil war I really think that would lead to civil war if he's removed from office he was removed from office and it was simple majority and because people would see that as a complete betrayal and that's of course why it's not simple majority I guess correct right correct with 67 votes.

And

it feels real.

I mean, it really does feel real that there could be something that could happen that we would go into a civil war.

Okay.

I hope to God that doesn't happen.

But

that's the outlier of what could happen in your life, what could happen in the foreseeable future.

That's the outlier.

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It's very strange.

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 is no embarrassment anymore on anything.

It's like nothing matters.

And yet, at the same time,

everything matters to the max.

I am so outraged by what so-and-so just said.

So, we're living in this world where nothing matters

except these little things over here that I'll fight to the death on.

That's not a recipe for success.

So, what does matter next?

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.

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 instituted 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.

One 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 build-up 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 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 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 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.

Post modernism.

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 I can't make heads or tails of

my mistakes.

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

I don't,

I just, I've,

I believe in him.

I know who he is.

Perhaps 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 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 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.

Finding 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

that UN agencies, government agencies, have said that

this audience has done more

than the world?

That when it comes to freeing the Christians in the Middle East,

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.

I care about a guy who has caused me so much angst, so many problems.

I care about the voice of Alex Jones.

I despise him, but I care about his right to have a voice.

Could I ask you a favor?

I wish I could offer this to you for free.

Please go to Amazon and pre-order my book,

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Please.

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Addicted to Outrage.

We'll pick it up there again.

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we still have a lot on our plate to talk about.

Overloaded today.

Overloaded today with news of the day and

the real news of the day.

When we return.

Mercury.

Glenn, back.

You know, I think I'm going to start.

I think I want to really start talking to

people who haven't made their mind up on stuff or just questioning, just questioning.

You know, because I am.

I'm right sometimes.

I'm wrong sometimes, but I'm always questioning.

And

I'd like to talk to those people who are saying about Asia Argento, hey, hey, hey, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

You know, this don't throw out the whole baby with the bathwater here.

You know, she was obviously a flawed messenger.

And people who were even saying earlier this year or earlier this week hey well let's let's have some process I agree with you 100% 100% now the process happens to be over once there's photographic proof

but I agree with you we should have a process but we should have a process on everything shouldn't we we shouldn't have you know one person says something and then it's over or or you know just mob justice we should have systems correct should have hearings

some sort of process process.

Some uncovering of evidence.

Some ability to defend yourself.

Some thing.

Then why is it the Democrats are now trying to halt the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh?

It's scheduled to begin September 4th.

They don't want a hearing.

Because now they have guilt by association.

The Manafort and Cohen courtroom dramas barely over, and Chuck Schumer took to the microphone and called for an immediate pause of Kavanaugh's confirmation process.

Now the air was thick with the smell of his old spice and desperation.

Democrats are grasping.

Well, I would like to say straws, but no Democrat would do that because it would be bad for the planet and you could go to jail for it.

So they're grasping for,

well, maybe paper straws.

Ways to tank the Kavanaugh nomination.

Earlier this week, they tried unearthing the old documents trick.

That effort uncovered that when Kavanaugh was working for Kenneth Starr in the 90s, yeah, part of his job

was, you know, to

prepare the detailed questions to ask Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.

So basically,

he was guilty of doing his job.

You can't trust a guy like that.

After Manafort and Cohen, the developments happened on Tuesday, Democrats were tossed a lifeline, they thought.

I mean, it's barely a strand of dental floss, but they'll take it at this point.

Senate Democrats say Kavanaugh cannot be confirmed now because what if a case involving President Trump lands before the Supreme Court?

Kavanaugh couldn't possibly be a fair judge in such a case because Trump appointed him.

Yeah, it's kind of like, you know, the deciding vote on Obamacare couldn't have landed on the lap of a Republican justice and had him vote with it, right?

Or, wait, he did.

Democratic Senator Maisie Hirano, I think that's her name, in Hawaii.

She's on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She says she's now going to cancel her meeting with Kavanaugh.

She doesn't need to even meet with him now.

Doesn't need to hear him.

Well, now that would make sense if you had pictures of Manafort and Cohen, you know, in this, you know, going to the same baseball game, you know, with Kavanaugh, and they were just buddies and, you know, and putting ketchup and mustard on each other's wieners, then maybe you would have something, but not now.

We don't have those pictures.

Manafort and Cohen

don't have anything to do with Kavanaugh that we know of.

But it gives them the chance to pretend to care about truth and justice and the American way.

But in reality, they only oppose Kavanaugh because they're freaked out that he may somehow or another end abortion and enslave women forever.

They don't care about the thousand other issues that Kavanaugh could deal with on the Supreme Court.

But this is the Democrats' last-ditch Hail Mary plan.

Delay Kavanaugh's confirmation until next year, win a bunch of seats in November, impeach Trump, clone Ruth Bader Ginsburg, get Mike Pence to nominate, you know, Ruth Ginsburg II to the Supreme Court.

It's a foolproof plan.

All they need is just a little more time to make it work.

It's Thursday, August 23rd.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So, I want to talk to you a little bit about

South Africa.

We've been trying to get our arms around what's happening in South Africa for a 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.

They are usually alt-writers, and

I just don't, I know who the alt-write is, and

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 more of

an

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 for 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 Shil Ramaposa, who is the current president of South Africa.

His party is the AMC, 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 Poster says he's changing the amendment to outline more clearly the conditions under which they can expropriate land, essentially meaning that this just and equitable clause, which

compensation must be, is going to be taken away, so it can mean expropriation with no compensation.

So that's a 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, 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, and there's no illusion that Ralph Pose is some

dictator who's suddenly taken over South Africa and he's enforcing his will on the people.

He ran on 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

healing the historic wound doing this.

But I think even more concerning is that there's no illusion.

Maniposta 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?

Yes, so it seems right now they're following the

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 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,

and not anymore.

Exports were down over a billion.

And then it 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 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 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 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 we'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 Cato 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 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

Antifa?

I'm not sure it's that bad

their partnership at all, because apparently the AMC 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 like they could be taking some votes.

Quickly,

any evidence that you have found that anything like

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 not, there's no official numbers are available.

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

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

And it indicates that

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 my reports, for sure.

It's devastating, but claiming, the president claiming it's a large-scale killing, it's 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, Alexander H-A-M-M-O.

Okay, thank you very much.

I appreciate it, Alexander.

Thank you for having me.

So difficult to figure this out.

I mean, like, Newsweek ran a story with the numbers Alexander just talked about, quoting activists as saying one death every five days.

New York Times is saying the number of killings of white farmers was at a 20-year low.

So I don't know.

The problem is I don't believe Newsweek and I don't believe the New York Times.

So I don't know which, I don't know what this is.

But we are working on it and trying to find some credible voices to tell us

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Senator Ted Cruz, top of our three today.

Pat Granley.

Unbelievable.

Are you going to inform him that you have bet that if he loses this race, you will eat your underwear?

I'm heavily invested in this race.

Heavily invested.

You should stop betting on my underwear because at some point, I don't think it's his time, but at some point, you're going to end up eating your underwear.

O'Rourke has done such a great job of hispandering during this campaign that

I honestly think most Hispanics believe he is Hispanic instead of Irish.

Oh, I got into a, well, it's a one-sided Twitter war.

I just, you know, I was just like, uh-huh, sure.

But

I made some statement here recently about how

Betto

is being used

to try to make him into a McMexican.

And he's, I mean, he's, there's no, there's no Mexican or Hispanic in his blood at all.

Not, he's 100% Irish.

Now all of a sudden, he's McMexican.

Yeah.

What is this?

And

I don't, I just don't know, but Betto is a Hispanic nickname for Roberto.

For Roberto.

And his real name is what?

Roberto?

Robert.

Robert.

Francis.

Robert Francis.

Very, very Hispanic.

So it might be the whitest name ever produced.

Yes, right?

Yes.

Is this not cultural appropriation?

Yeah, that's what I've been saying that all along.

Why aren't the Hispanics pissed at this instead of accepting him?

But that's why he puts only the one word on the yard signs and the bumper stickers is just Betto for Senate.

That's it.

Well,

why don't you at least put your last name there so we know that

you're at least half Hispanic and half Irish?

Yeah, unlike Ted Cruz that is 100% Hispanic.

By the way, I got a new yard sign.

You like this one?

Oh, I love that.

Yes.

I love that.

That's a new yard sign.

I love the Hillary 2028 yard sign.

I want to put that up in my yard.

At 2028,

she's still holding together.

She doesn't look a lot different.

I have a couple of neighbors that I think, just despite me, put up beto signs in the neighborhood pieces in the office.

Is that what they do?

Despite you?

No, wait, wait, wait.

Let's despite you.

In a joking way or just speaking.

I don't know.

I don't know.

But that would be a great yard sign to put up in a response to you.

I have to tell you, I would

love to get into a yard sign war with my neighbors.

If one of my neighbors started a yard sign war,

oh, don't

think you're going to walk away the winner because I'm willing to put anything in my front yard.

The poll out today, I think, confirms what seemingly was coming here, which is this is a fairly close race.

No, it's not.

You don't believe that?

There's been about five or six polls here that have shown 40,

this one's 49 to 45.

Cruz leading

four.

No, four here.

There's another poll that he was up by two.

Yeah.

He's had a couple of five and three.

You just think there's no chance of him.

I think here's, I think this is what it is.

I think there are people that are pissed at Ted Cruz

who really believed in him and

stood strong with him.

I can't think of anybody by name.

And they felt betrayed.

And then he really, and then he really just kind of didn't ever really kind of hug anybody back and say, look, I understand where you're coming from.

And I think this is their first chance to tell pollsters

something,

send a message to Ted Cruz.

And when they get into the polling booth, they'll pull for Cruz.

They're not so mad that they want to lose Cruz.

They're a senator.

They like him as a senator.

They like him as a senator.

I just don't believe that Texas has turned so crazy blue

that this unknown guy who

what was the statement he just made

well he's getting a lot of viral attention for

a speech a brilliant the most perfect response to the NFL kneeling issue and like some left-wing website has been sharing it it's getting you know lots of attention online and it I mean they're trying to make him out to be the next like Barack Obama nothing could be more American than kneeling for the national anthem right right shut up.

And it's like a really weak response where he goes through and misses all the, gets all the stats wrong.

And it's just like, it's one of those things you just, you can't, it would only work in the internet era.

You know, it's the only, because when you don't check anything and you don't know anything about the issue, this guy comes out and he's, you know, a decent-looking guy.

He's a younger guy.

He says some things that are, that, that confirm what you already believe and you share it.

Like, that's our whole society right now.

And that's basically what it was.

Well, and he talked about how police are killing blacks at an alarming rate.

No, they're they just don't show that at all.

That's just a flat-out lie.

So I just don't think that Texas has gone crazy.

And, you know, look, you're betting your underwear.

If Ted Cruz loses,

that will send, that shows me that I don't even understand Texas anymore.

I'm moving.

And I'm moving to Mars.

Okay.

I'm moving to Mars.

I'm not going to be like one of those other celebrities that make a promise.

And they say, I'm moving.

And then they move across the street if they move at all.

I'm moving to Mars.

So you'll see the rocket launch.

He's up by four.

Wow.

Huh?

Cruz is up by four.

Now, when Pat made this promise, he was probably up by 20.

Probably.

But you're doing it when he's up by four.

Right.

If he loses.

If he loses, I'm moving to Mars.

Okay.

Now, I happen to think if I could.

Just lock that sentence in a vault right there.

If he loses, I'm moving to Mars.

Lock it in.

I'm fine.

I love you, Ted, but I'm now rooting against you.

So I think

when you look at the polls, it's interesting because, you know, he was up by a decent amount.

It's closed, and I at first kind of didn't, you know, you don't really believe these things when you see one or two polls.

The fact that it's this close, I think, is interesting.

And to piggyback on what you said, you kind of said of like the people who really liked Cruz and weren't so crazy about Trump.

And then, you know, Cruz kind of went to Trump.

And maybe they're cool with Trump now.

And they're cool with

Ted.

They just feel like, well, I don't know what that was about.

Right.

I don't know what that was about.

So that's one group.

I think another group, too, with Cruz, are the people who loved Trump and were pissed at him for staying in so long

and not endorsing at the at the convention.

So the kind of first, the early Trump people and the early Cruz people

feel weird about that period.

Yes.

Yes.

And so I don't know now because he has completely embraced Trump now.

Right.

You know, he'll still disagree with him occasionally on issue, but he's fully embraced him.

I think the Trump people that didn't like Ted during the election, those people are going to be, are going to say clearly, okay, well, I don't want Betto in because, you know, I mean, remember, they're binary choice people.

So they don't want Betto in.

And so they'll forgive him.

They might be sending him a message through the polls, but when they get in and close the curtain, they're going to pull for a cruise.

I think I hope so.

I think you might be right.

I think you might be right.

It's a statement now, just to shake him up a little bit.

Yes.

He deserves it for what he did.

Yeah, I'm going to make him work for this.

I'm going to make him work for it.

It's interesting, though, when a campaign gets close.

Sometimes you can't control that momentum.

And Betto's raised a fortune, a lot of money.

More than Ted.

More than Cruz.

He's all over the place.

I think that people who are living in Texas and have lived in Texas, I think they suffer from two things.

Texas is huge.

It's huge.

It takes you as long to drive from the Mexican, Texas, Mexican border to the northern border of Texas as it does to drive from the northern border of Texas to Chicago.

Okay?

That's how big this state is.

It's enormous.

And so you're very isolated and everybody just thinks, oh, Texas is always going to be red.

You know, it's a red state.

It's always going to be red.

We're Texas.

No, no.

Demographics are changing.

So there's arrogance involved in it.

And I think

with that arrogance comes a little bit of apathy.

Ah, Ted's, of course, Ted's going to win.

Well, maybe not.

Maybe not.

And I'm actually pulling for Betto because I want to live on Mars.

I think I would understand Mars more than I understand Earth.

I can almost guarantee that.

You're not going to take the rocket ship to Mars before Pat eats his underwear, though.

No, I'm going to watch that.

I'll watch it from the capsule.

We're not blasting off until he eats it.

Because

I'll come back down those stairs.

And I will have some harsh words for him.

Every day I've been tweeted underwear recipes.

uh people are getting me ready there's some people may i offer may i offer our our chef to to prepare yes yes okay thank you all right hopefully it won't be necessary but yes so what do you guys make of this uh

uh hysteria that

all this all this nonsense coming from the left that the south african story is completely made up It's only a white nationalist, white supremacist story, and you're only pushing this conspiracy theory because you're all about white nationalism.

Vice ran a story and talked about how awful it was, except it's not true.

It's completely made up.

I mean, isn't that a little reminiscent of what the world did in 1940?

Can I tell you,

this is why Pat and I are best friends and have been for

what, 100 years now?

105.

Because I thought exactly the same thing.

And I even went to a documentary on,

what is it, exposing the Times.

And it was a documentary that came out in 2012.

I'm actually starting a monologue on this today.

I just was working on something for the future, showing and comparing

the way the New York Times handled the Holocaust and the way the mainstream media handled the Holocaust

and how we're dealing with this now.

Now, this may very well be nothing at this point.

Or somewhat overblown.

There is something, and even Vice admits that.

Correct.

There's something going on, and there is when there's smoke, there's fire.

Now, it may just be a match strike at this point,

but you want to blow that match out.

You want to blow that match out.

Don't go down this road to it.

And it's amazing how we've always said, never again.

Right.

And then every time it happens again, we just discount it.

So, Pat, I made a list.

We're not going to do anything.

I made a list.

I made a list.

We are right now ignoring 1 million Muslims in China.

In China, been rounded up.

We know it for a fact.

1 million Muslims in China.

Never again.

Well, rounded up.

There it is.

That's one sixth of the Holocaust.

One sixth.

Yeah.

And we know it, and they just got started.

We're ignoring the Christians in the Middle East.

Christians in the Middle East.

We're not paying attention to the Christians being rounded up and killed in Burma.

We're not even talking about, you know, oh, hashtag save our children in Northern Africa.

Those are Christians.

Those are Christians that were enslaved.

We don't seem to care about that.

We don't seem to care about what's happening in South Africa.

We don't.

What's so amazing is

there are these rumors.

We know that the seeds are being planted.

We have them on tape saying, you know, we're going to cut the throat of whiteness.

We have all of that.

We have the president on tape saying...

They're changing the Constitution so that they can take things from people without compensation.

Correct.

Not like a warning flag to you.

So

we know that's going on.

Yeah.

And this is the direction we're headed.

Just the rhetoric and the redistribution and the democratic socialist stuff and the white against black stuff.

We don't even care to verify that.

And what are we doing?

We're arguing over stupid stuff like Manafort.

Yeah, it's amazing.

The guy's guilty.

Move on with your life.

Had nothing to do with Trump.

He's guilty.

He's going to jail.

Celebrate.

Things 12 years ago.

Jeez.

Yeah.

Thanks, Pat.

Thank you.

Get your underwear recipes to Twitter at Pat Unleashed because he's going to be.

Say hi to Ted.

Oh, yeah.

And let him know that my email address is still the same.

Yeah, no, it didn't change.

Still works even and still the same.

So,

yeah.

Good times.

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