'We Are Losing Our Humanity' - 6/21/18

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Well, all of the outrage this week has mainly been focused on one thing, the evil Trump administration and its minions who delight in taking children from their illegal immigrant parents and throwing them all into dungeons.

Separate dungeons, mind you.

Separate dungeon.

Now that makes for a really nice and easy storyline and one that the press can sink their teeth in to because they think, ah, this time we've got him.

The whole world is upset.

But the reality is a little less convenient.

Most Americans seem to agree that separating children from their parents, even if their parents entered the U.S.

illegally, is a bad thing.

I happen to agree with that.

However, what if that mom and dad are trying to keep the kids?

And they're not really their kids.

Now, I know this is hard to believe, but in today's world, fraud actually happens.

While there are plenty of heartbreaking stories of parents simply seeking a chance for a better life for their children here in the U.S., there are also corrupt, abusive human traffickers who profit from the illegal immigration trade.

And so we have to sort all of these things out because we're forced to now because we will not enforce our border laws.

So we have all these people coming across, and we have to now become judge and jury on everything.

This week, the Department of Homeland Security said that since October 2017,

over 300 children have arrived at the border with adults claiming to be their parents.

They turned out not to even be related at all.

90 of these fraud cases came from the Rio Grande Valley alone.

2017, DHS reported 46 causes of fraudulent family claims.

There have already been 191 fraudulent cases this year alone.

When the Homeland Security Secretary Kirsten Nielsen pointed out that this is a 315% increase, the New York Times was quick to give these family fraud cases context by noting that they make up less than 1% of the total number of illegal immigrant families apprehended at the southern border.

Oh,

oh, well, if it's less than 1%,

oh, we shouldn't care about them.

And that makes total sense from the New York Times.

Remember, if you're in the upper 1%, they don't care about you.

If you happen to be a child who is being taken by someone that claims to be your parents, but aren't your parents, not even a relative, but it's only 1%,

I guess it only makes sense.

Thank you, New York Times, for being consistent.

We don't care about anything that involves 1%.

percent now for the rest of us

we do care and I hate to throw this in their face but if it means we save one child from slavery and and child trafficking maybe we should do something about it is anyone on the left concerned about human trafficking

see the whole the the really the most infuriating part of this whole conversation this week if you can even call it a conversation which I don't think you can,

is that both sides have an angle they can defend.

And while everybody's busy yelling and making their case, children are being used and abused.

What if we just tried, just tried for two seconds

to love mercy

more than we love being right?

Do you think that might change things just a bit?

It's Thursday, June 21st.

This is the Glenbeck program.

Last night I did a chalkboard laying all of this out.

And I think it's really important because nobody is giving you context on anything.

And if we're going to have a reasonable conversation, then we need to have context.

We need to know what the truth is.

And right now, I mean, right now we have Governor Cuomo that is suing Donald Trump and the administration.

Where were you before?

Where were you before?

Everybody is at each other's throats, and I don't want a part of it.

And yesterday I was so angry, and I just don't,

it's not going to help us.

I know history too well.

This is going to destroy us.

So,

yesterday afternoon on our TV show, I tried tried just to show the facts and lay out the facts.

If there are any thinking, reasoning people available anymore, and I'm not sure there are,

but if there are anybody who's looking for wisdom and truth,

let's start here.

The media will have you believe that all of these problems began when Donald Trump was elected.

Everybody else wants you to believe that these problems really started with Barack Obama.

Neither of those are true.

They want to say that this started 2018 with the zero tolerance policy for illegal entry.

Well, that made it worse, I guess.

Or did it make it better?

I'm not sure.

Are we enforcing the law or not enforcing the law?

Does the law mean anything anymore?

Now, according to Newsweek, President Obama kept more than double the number of children in detention centers than the Trump White House.

That's according to Newsweek.

But you're not going to hear that from anyone.

How did this all start?

Well, the outrage is totally fake.

And we know this because political activists began sharing a photo of the children that were detained in these cages, and that culminated on Father's Day weekend when the outrage went into a frenzy.

Now, these pictures, as you know, were not real, but they saw how quickly they became viral.

And so the left decided, here's a hot button we have to exploit.

Now, those pictures that originally went viral,

what happened?

Those pictures that went viral were from 2014.

This was happening in in 2014.

But it's not about Barack Obama, just like this isn't about Donald Trump.

This is about a border problem

and specifically about families on the border.

This has been a problem spanning decades and has involved the last four presidents.

Don't take my word for it.

I want you to do your own homework and I want you to look some things up.

President Obama, when he was dealing with it, he said that Congress has to act, pass a bill.

So he pushed it off on Congress.

Now that the president is unpopular with the press, they are making sure to let everybody know that only the president can fix this.

That's untrue.

Barack Obama was right.

It belongs to Congress.

Now,

here's what nobody is explaining.

This stems from a federal court case settled in 1997.

It was a nine-year-long lawsuit against the government, and it's called Flores versus Reno.

I want you to look it up.

Don't take my word for it.

Don't take anybody's word for anything anymore.

Look it up, and please go to the original sources.

Don't go to, don't even, I'll just trash me.

Don't go to the blaze.

Don't go and read it from a second source.

Go to the original source.

It's Flores versus Reno, as in Attorney General Janet Reno.

She was under President Bill Clinton, and the settlement stated that unaccompanied minors that enter the U.S.

illegally must be released without unnecessary delay to either a responsible party, which was an extended family member, or a facility.

So, in other words, in this case in 1997, the Supreme Court mandated that it was unlawful to hold an illegal immigrant child in federal detainment facilities.

Now, this is really important.

Why?

Because if you come with your family,

you by law

with this lawsuit that was settled by the Supreme Court,

Flores versus Reno, 1997, you cannot hold the children.

They have to be released to a family member or a facility.

Okay.

So what happened?

Well, when that happened and we started splitting families away under Clinton, George Bush tried to fix this because what happened?

We started seeing a rise in human trafficking with children.

People would come and say, yep, I'm a relative, and they weren't.

And you started to see a number of children that were being human trafficked.

You saw people come over the border saying that they were their parents, they would be released, and the children would go into trafficking.

So President Bush signed what's called the Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act.

What did that do?

That codified Flores versus

Reno.

Now,

everything was going along fine.

We were still separating children and families from the Clinton administration, during the Bush administration, and during the Obama administration.

But then there was this sudden, unexplained rush to the border in 2014.

Well, what happened?

All of these unaccompanied minors started rushing into the country.

We had to detain them.

President Obama put them in cages.

I was there.

It was awful.

They were not only just detaining these kids and putting them in cages, the reason why we brought food and everything else down to them is because the country wasn't prepared.

They had, they didn't even know where to keep these kids.

They were wrapped in foil blankets for a while.

Yes, and that's why we said we need clothing, we need pajamas, we need blankets, we need food, we need toys, because these kids were coming with absolutely nothing.

And they were being thrown on a cement floor, sleeping under tin foil blankets.

I thought that was wrong.

You did too.

Millions in this audience knew then it was wrong.

That's why you raised three million dollars.

And that is nobody, nobody on the conservative side did that.

No one stood up like this audience did.

You knew it was wrong then.

But what happened?

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Now, this is the crazy

court in California, the most overturned court in all of American history.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, what did they do?

Well,

they decided because we had 68,000 unaccompanied minors flooding the southern border and the Obama administration didn't know what to do, they relaxed family detentions.

So what?

If you came across and said you're a family, you were supposed to just be released.

Well, the problem with that was once you were released, nobody was coming back for their trial.

We were just adding more and more people.

We didn't have any idea who these people were.

We also had no idea if these children were being trafficked.

All you had to do was have some kids and say they're mine and we had to let you go.

That didn't work either.

As Flores versus Reno, minors couldn't be detained.

And if you think that this isn't U.S.

policy, I want you to read this.

Quote,

this agreement sets out a nationwide policy for the detention, release, and treatment of minors in the custody of INS and shall supersede all previous INS policies that are inconsistent with the terms of this agreement.

This agreement shall become effective upon final court approval.

That's it.

This is a nationwide policy of what the country can and cannot do.

This policy and the extraordinary surge of children flooding the border back in 2014 eventually led to the images that are now being used as images from today

they weren't they were from 2014

and as i said newsweek newsweek reports that barack obama had more than double the number of children in detention centers then currently being held by the trump administration

That's Newsweek.

That's not me.

Look it up for yourself.

So So all of this anger all of this vitriol

is Really coming from what

it's coming from a system constantly putting a band-aid on a major wound

Our wound is we have a lawless border

Nobody knows what to do

Because there are no laws.

If you come here, you need to be detained and go through a court and let the court decide, are you really truly a refugee that needs the protection of the United States?

Or are you coming over for a nefarious reason?

Are you coming over because you just want a better life?

If you're a refugee, we need to take you in.

If you want a better life, you need to go through the front door.

If you are a bad guy, you're going back or you're arrested.

But the court system is overwhelmed.

Why?

Because people want it to be overwhelmed.

This is causing a crisis and then offering the solutions to that crisis, which only make it worse.

We must have a law,

enforce the law,

and live as humanely as we can under that law.

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I have spent the last

few months kind of

really trying to

sort out where we're headed as a people.

And I've kind of done it.

I've worked harder on this book that is coming out in September.

I think harder than any other book I've ever written.

And it's called

Addicted to Outrage.

And it takes us through how we are being manipulated.

I don't know if you saw this, but they announced yesterday that the Russian trolls and bots are exploiting the family separation thing.

They're pushing stuff out again on Twitter on both sides

and just trying to stir us up and get us toward anger.

And we are addicted to this right now.

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The Washington Times just covered something that happened last night on the news and why it matters.

If you don't watch that show every night, you're missing a really good roundtable of discussion of the news.

and why we think it matters.

There's about five of us that get together every night and we talk about things for about a half an hour.

Then we go online.

And if you're a Blaze subscriber, especially last night's online episode, about another 15 minutes of the show without commercial interruption.

And it's

last night was really quite intense and pretty funny.

But anyway,

we cover the news and try to give you some context.

And last night I talked about how, you know, any of any intellectual

honesty is just dead.

It's It's just dead.

Can we play the audio of what was her name?

Kirsten Nielsen, who

is from the Department of Homeland Security.

The woman who went out and ate Mexican food.

She's in the middle of imprisoning children and separating them from their parents, and then she's eating burritos?

You don't find that offensive?

Isn't that crazy?

That was one of the big points of that.

That was one of their points.

Why is that wrong, Stu?

Well, first of all, they keep saying that these are all asylum seekers.

Well, all the asylum seekers aren't coming from Mexico.

They're all coming from Guatemala and other

El Salvador.

And so, like, you're just what, lumping them in as the same?

I thought that would be something that you to criticize us for.

Yeah, crazy.

Are you just calling them all Mexicans?

All people south of you are Mexicans?

Is that what you're thinking?

Nuts.

Not the way that works.

Nuts.

Okay, so she's in a Mexican restaurant and she's just having dinner.

And here come these social justice warriors.

and they decide that they are going to wreck everybody's meal and here is the scene.

Shame!

Shame!

Shame!

No border!

No walls!

Sanswari for all!

Kirsten Newson will want you to think that we are ruining your dinner?

She is the secretary of DHS.

ICE rips children apart from their families every day.

They lock them up in cages.

They sleep under those silver blankets you guys get at marathons.

These kids will never be reunited with their parents because Kirsten Nielsen's staff doesn't think it's necessary to make a plan to reunite them with their parents.

Have any of you ever been to a detention center?

I've been to one in Nogales, Arizona.

Those kids are alone.

They are in cages.

They are given peanut butter on tortillas.

They're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice in them.

Is that the kind of environment you would want your kid to be in when you are fleeing violence and trying to give them a better life?

Because that is what Tearson Nielsen wants them to have.

First of all, first of all, first of all, boo, I've heard these people before, and if I can, just I mean, we are all very familiar with them.

May I please play the audio from the last protest where I saw them?

Boo!

Boo!

Boo!

Garbage.

And that's what she is.

The queen of refuse.

So bow down to her if you want.

Bow to her.

Bow to the queen of slime.

The queen of filth.

The queen of futrescents.

Boo.

Boo.

Rubbish.

Filth.

Slime.

There you go.

So we've seen this.

We've seen this before.

That one was not outside a Mexican restaurant.

No, no, no.

But you can go ahead and bow to her if you want.

And in that case, she was not feeding

tortillas with peanut butter on them to the children.

That sounds so delicious.

I have fed that to my children.

I like it with banana on it, too.

Yes.

Do you ever do the peanut butter, banana, and jelly on a tortilla?

It's freaking amazing.

No, I've not had the jelly, but I'll take your word for it.

It sounds amazing.

What is wrong with that?

What is wrong with that?

And by the way,

they're feeding them sandwiches that still have ice in them, still are partly frozen.

Okay, well, wait for a couple of minutes and they won't be frozen anymore.

I mean, are you predicting the future?

How do you know that?

It's in Texas.

It's got just a very short period of time.

And believe me, they'll be toasty.

Walk outside for 11 seconds, you'll have a grilled sandwich.

I mean, that's crazy.

Listen to what they're listening to what she is saying here.

She starts with no borders, no walls.

Okay.

Well, I'm sorry, but if you want the United States of America to provide services for people, which I don't, I don't.

I don't want the government providing services for me, for my family, or anyone else.

Last resort services, yes,

last

resort.

You can talk to me about that.

I'll be open to that.

But that's not what we have.

Now, you can either either have no borders

and no services

or you need borders and services you cannot have both you cannot have no borders and services because you can't afford them

so which is it do you want a big glorious state that provides everything for everybody

or

do you want borders

You can't have both.

But what about the fact that no borders, no walls, sanctuary for all rhymes?

You didn't use that.

Well, that addresses that.

That is a very good point.

You haven't.

You haven't noted that.

No, it is good.

I'm going to leave that to the poetry section of our broadcast a little later.

But think about that, though.

What they're saying is not we need to stop separation of families.

No.

By the way, isn't this the Democratic Socialists of America, by the way?

Yes.

Which was fascinating to see this clip run on cable news because finally it felt honest.

It was like, here's a clip, and in the very upper right-hand corner, Democratic Socialists of America.

It was like, it kind of feels like a lot of the sourcing comes through there.

Yeah.

But we don't normally hear about it.

It's nice to see that they actually put the name on the screen for once.

But no borders, no walls, sanctuary for all is not common sense solutions to parents being ripped out of the arms of

their

child or whatever.

It's the opposite.

It's open borders.

it's no borders, there's no walls, and sanctuary for all.

That means you're just opening it up, and everybody's running across whenever they want to.

And if you want to have that as an argument, go ahead.

But don't stand on TV because the same stations that were making these arguments, well, we just can't have these separations.

It's just inhumane.

That's a totally different argument than the audio you're playing.

And you know it.

And the audio that you're playing, can you imagine?

And I don't want to play this game.

I'm tired of this game.

But can you imagine, had the Tea Party behaved that way

when, what's his name, was actually running guns across the border.

Can you imagine if we would have interrupted his dinner?

Racism.

We would have been racist.

We would have been horrid.

You know, this CNN, one of the reporters on CNN

said she shouldn't be eating in a Mexican restaurant,

but maybe there's no Swedish food in Washington.

Excuse me?

Excuse me?

First of all, what, lingonberry juice and meatballs?

I mean, where are we going with this?

They've been to Ikea.

They got two foods.

I mean, you got to assemble furniture after the end.

It's not fun.

Anyway, I mean, this ridiculous and mocking this, making jokes and light about this.

Do you know that yesterday we had not only Peter Fonda threatening the life of Barron?

Now, imagine

had that been done to one of Obama's kids,

it would have been the greatest scandal of all time.

If I would have said what Peter Fonda said, and I never would have, I never would have.

He was advocating for the rape of

the kidnapping

and the rape of a 12-year-old who happens to be the son of the president of the United States is so far over the line of sanity that there's almost no hope if we can't agree on that.

So not only did that happen, but another guy who was

a volunteer for the Democrats and worked on many Democratic campaigns, his Facebook page is all about the Democrats.

He also threatened the life and said to one congressman, I'm coming for your kids and I'm going to kidnap your kids, keep them in a cage and kill them.

Now he's been arrested.

But

why aren't, where is anyone calling for

calm?

Why are we just being ratcheted up over and over again?

I'll tell you why, because of clicks and ratings.

I could ratchet things up.

I could.

I know how.

I know how to

feed the American people what they want and right now what they want is anger towards the other side and I could do it I'm not

because it's wrong for the country

I've always tried to do the right thing for the country but as we have gone down this road and I see us getting sicker and sicker and sicker, I have been made aware of not only my responsibilities and my failings, but the failings of all of us, especially those in the media.

Where are the people that will say, wait, we have to back off from the edge here?

This is bad.

They're not, because they see this as a way to win.

In this particular case, any win leaves a country that half of it feels like they have lost.

Let's stay focused on what we should be focused on, and that is our humanity.

Look at how people are saying

they don't care about children, and we have to be human and decent if we're going to be Americans.

And so I think we should kidnap and rape and kill the child of the president.

Is nobody recognizing what's happening.

How can you keep your humanity and even dismiss that?

Even just say, well, that's just him.

That's, I don't believe in that, but there is a problem.

No.

No.

Our number one problem is we are losing our humanity.

We are losing our love for one another and all people unless they think exactly like you.

Why did we go down to the border in the first place in 2014?

It was to remind us

that these are not just political debates.

These are people.

They are not just objects of a policy.

These are children.

And at the time, I said, look, there's going to come a time

when we're just going to want to tear each other apart, and we must do everything we can to exercise the muscle of charity and goodwill and decency.

That's why we went down.

What we found there was worse than what we thought.

It still is.

But

let's keep things

in separate buckets.

There are those that believe on both sides.

The extreme libertarian that says, I want no borders,

and they can make a case for that.

Then the socialist that says, I want no borders.

I don't believe they can make an intellectual case for that because at least libertarians are saying, well, we're not going to provide stuff for everybody and we should be free to roam.

Okay, well, at least it's intellectually consistent.

Socialists usually turn into communists, and then borders become very important.

That's one argument.

The other argument is: what are we doing with the separation of the children?

Okay, if we're going to have that, let's look at the law.

What does the law say?

If we don't like the law, then we need Congress to act.

But we can't get Congress to act because everyone in Congress is at each other's throats, and no one is actually trying to solve anything.

I shouldn't say that.

A few are.

But the parties are not.

The parties need us at each other's throats.

So we're either going to be pawns and we are going to play into this.

And we are not going to recognize that Russia sees yet another opportunity and, as was revealed yesterday, are back in the game.

Their bots and servers are going in and they are dividing us again, trying to stir up hatred.

United, we stand, divided, we fall.

They know it.

So does the media.

So do the political parties.

But they win in the short term by getting ratings or money or winning elections.

The only losers here are us.

We must repair and focus on our humanity.

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Glenn Beck.

Did you say a new Peter Fonda movie is opening this weekend?

Yeah, really excited.

You're not going to go see it?

Boundaries?

No, he knows no boundaries.

No,

it's okay.

They're going to still release it.

Unbelievable.

Sony Pictures Classics was, they've been criticized because of these tweets.

Hey, are you going to get rid of this guy?

They're like, ah, it's kind of a minor role.

And we think the tweets are abhorrent, but he's apologized for them.

And, you know, it was kind of a minor role.

So kidnapping and threatening to find a pedophile to rape the president's son, that's a minor role.

It would be unfair to the other people who worked at the

Glenn.

Okay.

So, yeah, we're going to still release that thing.

All right.

Glenn back.

Warning, this program is really inappropriate for anyone who just wants to engage in knee-jerk anger,

is addicted to outrage, outrage, and wants to be fed more, or those who just like sound bites and don't really actually want to listen or learn.

So,

okay, I think we got rid of the riffraff.

Now let's talk about cartoons.

Cartoons, remember when cartoons were happy things?

Now I want to separate what I'm about to say with the First Amendment.

I am not for banning any kind of speech.

I do not want any kind of speech ban.

I am a First Amendment absolutist.

Now,

cartoons, every panel, you know, took you on a tidy little journey.

Do you remember watching,

you know, reading the Sunday newspaper, and that's the section that you wanted as a kid.

And if you were lucky and had some silly putty and the Sunday comics, you could press it down on the paper, and then you'd have one of those little boxes there on your silly putty, and you could stretch the faces.

It would carry you to unexplored places.

In Understanding Comics, Scott McLeod writes, quote, the comics creator asks us to join him in a silent dance of the seen and the unseen, the visible and the invisible.

This dance is unique to comics.

No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well.

This is why I think it's a mistake to see comics as a mere hybrid of the graphic arts and prose fiction.

What happens between panels is kind kind of magic only comics can create.

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Now, when that magic is manipulated or politicized, it can devolve the art form into a baseless thing.

Yesterday, Occupy Wall Street published the perfect example of lowbrow deviation from the art form, a six-panel approach at satire, which imitates the instructions panel found in a netted cubby hole behind the seats on airplanes.

The cartoon is a critique of the recent news about the immigrant children being separated from their parents after crossing the border, and it is a step-by-step guide on how to murder U.S.

immigrations and customs enforcement agents.

Should you have the right to do that?

I guess so, yes.

Should you do that?

Do you have a responsibility to restrain yourself?

Yeah, I think you do.

The first panel shows a man shoving an infant into into a cage meant for Pomeranians.

The following five panels feature instructions and include pictures of a cartoonish murder.

The panels read as follow.

The first one, if an ICE agent tries to take your child at the border, don't panic.

Second panel, pull your child away as quickly as possible by force.

Third panel, gently tell your child to close his or her eyes and ears so he won't witness what you're about to do.

Panel four, grab the ICE agent from behind behind and push your knife into his chest with an upward thrust, causing the agent's sternum to break.

5.

Reach into his chest and pull out his still-beating heart.

6.

Hold his bloody heart out for all the agents to see and tell them that the same fate awaits them if they F with your child again.

Now, violent comics are nothing new.

We've been dropping safes on

the coyote's head forever.

But most of the time, they remain in the realm of invented worlds.

In other words, not in ours, not with a reference to actual people, let alone federal agents.

The mainstream media made a game of crying racism every single time a single cartoon depiction of Obama was ever printed.

During his presidency, but also during his tenure as senator, when the New Yorker of all places faced scrutiny for depicting him in Muslim clothing.

Holy cow, you'd think the earth had stopped.

Life was a minefield for political cartoonists during the Obama era.

This year we saw the leftist outrage regarding the Simpsons character Apu.

Now, so you know, Apu is a cartoon representation of a highly respected, though cartoonishly depicted cartoon character on a cartoon show composed of cartoonishly depicted cartoon characters.

We all remember Charlie Hebdo, which, like many outlets, have used cartoon satire to criticize Islam.

They face the wrath and ire of people unable to see the tamest representation of the Prophet Muhammad.

Now, Charlie Hebdo was not doing the tamest depiction of the Prophet Muhammad.

But it is interesting, isn't it?

Occupy Wall Street publishes a cartoon that advocates murdering of federal agents, and and critics are all told to lighten up.

Meanwhile, the merest depiction of Muhammad has resulted in riots and murders throughout the world.

Murder, riots, and terror on an unprecedented scale.

Now, the intersection of Islam and comics is complex enough to have its own three-hour show, so we're going to leave that for now.

Although, we should maybe make reference to the depiction of Barack Obama and how you could lose your job or your position if you had depicted him in ways that the Twitter,

I don't know what to call them, mob,

decided they didn't like it.

It is worth mentioning the commentary by satirical website The Onion, which featured a highly offensive cartoon of all of the major religious figures except Mohammed, noting, following the publication of the image above, in which the most cherished figures from multiple religious faiths were depicted engaging in lascivious sex acts of considerable depravity, and yet no one was murdered, beaten, or had their lives threatened.

Of course, Occupy Wall Street is free to publish any cartoon that they like.

This is America.

But if we do not understand our responsibilities that go with our rights, we are going to lose them because at some point, somebody's going to say, somebody has to make this stop.

Although there have been several instances in which violent cartoons were ruled to have violated the yelling fire in a crowded theater limitation of the First Amendment, posting it to Twitter is another issue.

Because that's not the government.

And I honestly do not want Twitter editing people's speech either.

But they are a private company.

And as a private company, surely this Occupy Wall Street cartoon, shoving a knife into the agent's chest so you could crack open his sternum

surely is a violation of its current content policy.

But

experience tells me that nothing will come of it.

And so I guess this commentary is and the world goes on.

A screenshot of a receipt from Chick-fil-A causes outrage, and the head of Twitter needs to apologize for it.

But a cartoon advocating the murder of federal agents

gets nothing.

Again, back to understanding comics.

Scott McLeod concludes, today

the possibilities for comics are as they always have been, endless.

Comics offer range and versatility.

with all the potential imagery of film and painting, plus the intimacy of the written word.

And that's all that's needed.

Just a desire to be heard, the will to learn, and the ability to see.

Crude and awful as the Occupy Wall Street comic is, the best thing we can do is nod and look elsewhere for the art that will open our eyes, that will inspire us to be better people.

Let the lunatics draw what they want.

Let them stew in their own flawed double standards.

Otherwise, we're we're as shallow and empty as they are, and nothing good comes from that.

So,

just a moment to recognize the world we now find ourselves in, growing more and more unlike anything we ever would have recognized ten years ago.

But the best thing we can do is smile and keep moving forward

because the history of mankind shows us that things are getting better.

They will get better.

This too shall pass.

The best way to make it pass faster is to show the world how to hear, how to learn, and how to see.

It's Thursday, June 21st.

This is the Glenbeck program.

Florida law enforcement officials arrested a man yesterday who allegedly called the office of Brian Mast.

Brian Mast is a Republican from Florida.

The man that was arrested had threatened to kill his kids over the media's recent hysteria over the child separation immigration policy.

Now, I believe that this is the exact example that the media has been looking for.

The media tried to look for any time anyone did anything violent at all or threatened violence because of the words that were being expressed by me, Bill O'Reilly, and others on Fox News.

They blamed everything on us.

But nothing really ever came from any of that.

But that didn't stop them from looking.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the media should look at itself now.

Let me repeat.

He threatened to kill the congressman's kids over the media's recent hysteria over the child separation immigration policy.

Lawrence Key is his name.

He's accused of calling Mast's office 478 times, allegedly telling an intern in the office, I am going to, I'm quoting, I am going to find the congressman's kids and kill them.

He continued, allegedly saying, if you're going to separate kids at the border, I'm going to kill his kids, end quote.

Quote, don't try to find me because you won't.

He was arrested.

Key allegedly told investigators that he never threatened to hurt Mask's children, but said that Mask should be separated from his kids.

So who is he?

Well, a quick look at his social media pages show that he is very politically active.

He volunteers regularly for the Democratic Party of Martin County and has volunteered many hours for Planned Parenthood, according to a friend of Keyes.

My initial thought, but perhaps it's unkind, is if he spends so much time volunteering his time for Planned Parenthood, perhaps he is used to killing children, and so it means less to him than it would to you and me.

But again, that's unkind.

Mass has a daughter and two sons.

They're under the age of eight.

They are safe today.

However, is the president's son safe?

This goes to Peter Fonda.

Peter Fonda suggested on Twitter that

we should be able to kidnap the president's son and turn him over to a child molester to be repeatedly raped.

Melania Trump,

who is never getting any love or respect at all from the media, had to call Secret Service and report it.

They are on it.

Peter Fonda is still free to walk around and

say what he wants.

He's also free to release a new movie.

this weekend.

Sony Pictures has decided not to pull the movie.

They say he plays a minor role in this, and he's he's already apologized to the first lady and the first family.

Oh,

okay.

So why is this happening?

You know the thing that really intrigues me on this whole business

is we are missing

the point.

We are missing something that I haven't heard anybody talk about.

We are missing one critical piece

that once you understand this one critical piece, we should all say,

oh crap, what are we doing?

What are we arguing about?

I'll give it to you when we come back.

First, let me tell you a little bit about Goldline.

There's a couple of stories here today.

Did you see that

Daimler

has cut its outlook?

Apparently, Daimler has just come out and said they're lowering their earnings potential for the year because of the tariffs for U.S.

vehicles to the Chinese market.

So they are now expecting that Daimler AG

is going to lower their earnings because

these tariffs are going to hurt Daimler here in the United States.

They don't work.

And any conservative has known this for a very long time.

Ronald Reagan was for free trade.

And I know there is an argument that, you know, some trade is

unfair in some countries.

Yes, it is.

It is.

And we need to do the best that we can.

But trade wars always work out horribly for everybody.

All we have to do is look at history.

Now, we're looking at history and we are seeing some really disturbing trends.

The stock markets are down.

The investors are becoming panicked because not only of the trade war, but also more importantly, because of rising inflation.

This is eating at your savings.

Inflation now is rising.

They're expecting they're fine.

The Fed is fine with a 3% inflation.

They said 2%, but once it hit 3, they're like, well, we're fine with that two.

Now, this is what happens when you print money like we did.

And the whole world did it.

Not just us.

The whole world did it.

This has happened before.

It happened in Germany.

Also, one of those countries was Zimbabwe.

Goldline would like you to know that history and be able to show your friends.

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You You have a $10 billion bill in your pocket from Zimbabwe.

It's not worth anything.

But then again, maybe the U.S.

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all right so what is it that everyone is missing

well what does this story that has consumed us and has caused so much hatred have you noticed the growth of hatred in the last

well when was Father's Day four days ago

have you noticed the growth of hatred in the last week it's off the charts

so what is this all about why do we hate each other so much right now we hate each other right now because

we are led to believe that one side wants to keep children in cages or grab them and take them away from their parents.

And the other side doesn't.

Okay.

Well, there's a couple of factors here.

The

Republicans didn't really have a problem too much with it.

Some did.

This audience did,

back in 2014.

But I think that's mainly because there was no information on it.

I mean, we rang the bell, but nobody else was really ringing the bell.

And then

now,

because nobody showed it under Obama, all the Democrats believe that this is something new and they're comfortable in that knowledge.

No matter how much you offer to say, no, no, no, this isn't new, that doesn't help.

They don't want that information.

Everybody wants to live in their own bubble.

But when we actually look at it, what we're asking is, should kids be taken away from parents?

The poll numbers are clear.

67

say no, we shouldn't.

67% of us and 17% say yes.

And in that 17%, I will bet you that a lion's share of that 17%

is saying, well, wait a minute.

Wait a minute.

I don't want them to keep the kids in an adult prison.

That's not really healthy.

So what do you do with that?

17%

say, you know, well,

we got to keep them someplace because I don't want them released out into the wilds because who do you know?

Where do they go?

67%.

Those,

when they're asked, do you want to continue or should we abolish this practice of keeping them separate from their parents?

80%

say abolish it.

So can I ask you, what is it that we're arguing about?

What is it

besides politics, power, money, and ratings?

What is it we hate each other about?

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I want to go over a I want to go over a couple of things.

I want to go over a couple of pieces here that I think are

important.

Last night,

you know,

can we please play the

protesters with Nielsen, the woman who was out, she works for DHS, and she was out having dinner at a Mexican restaurant, and

the Democratic Socialist and Antifa disrupted everybody's meal to do this.

Shame!

Shame!

Shame!

No border!

No walls!

Says wearing more!

No borders and no walls!

Because Kirsten Nielsen's staff doesn't think it's necessary to make a plan to reunite them with their parents.

All right, so

yesterday, CNN,

you know, talked a little bit about this.

No, nothing has really happened to these people at all.

Nobody's really speaking out against them.

And Ana Navarro, who is a, I believe, a Republican,

I guess, whatever that means anymore,

she tweeted, she's from CNN, are there no Norwegian restaurants in Washington, D.C.?

Byron York, wrote, appears no authorities intervened to stop abolish ICE Antifa harassing the DHS security secretary at a DC restaurant last night.

Meanwhile, CNN's Ana Navarro suggests Nielsen, a Florida native, should stick to her own ethnicity in choosing restaurants.

I had to respond.

First of all, thank you, Byron.

But I asked CNN and Ana Navarro, can you stop minimizing what is happening?

You took every word, for instance, target.

as a threat, as something that needed to stop just six years ago.

Every single word was a dog whistle for racism or violence.

Now this happens.

Peter Fonda threatens the president's child.

Another guy in Florida threatens the life of a congressman's children.

And you're making jokes?

Intellectual honesty and integrity.

That is our main problem today.

There is no intellectual honesty or integrity.

Everyone just wants to win for their side.

And winning now is even morphing into just rip the other side apart.

Just make them pay.

I got a tweet response, a Twitter response from somebody who said, really?

You're telling people to calm down?

The guy who freaked everybody out with FEMA camps, death panels, and World War III?

Okay, well, let's take those.

First of all, FEMA camps.

We dismantled the FEMA camps.

And I don't mean physical FEMA camps because they never existed.

We dismantled the lie about FEMA camps.

I debunked those.

I know everybody says I promoted them.

No, I debunked those with popular mechanics.

Also debunked the 9-11 conspiracy theory with popular mechanics.

When it comes to death panels,

well, I'd just like to remind you of Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, and the case here with a guy who could actually speak and was actually able to communicate, saying, no, don't unplug me, I'm alive.

But the hospital decided that his life wasn't worth it.

That is a death panel.

We're at the very beginning of that.

Well, let me just give you this article today.

Google's artificial intelligence can now predict your death with 95% accuracy.

It now shows it will earn a warning, each person will earn an early warning score that will be used in hospitals.

AI will be able to predict mortality 24 hours after admission with 95% accuracy.

Well, what do you think that means?

That means, don't argue with the Google algorithm.

The Google algorithm says you don't have a chance to live, so no help for you.

That is a death panel.

I stand by that.

In World War III, he specifically mentioned in his tweet that I said that Islamists and

those who are part of Antifa and the communists and the

socialists will all work together, not coordinated, but to bring chaos to the world.

If you can't see that chaos is happening in the world right now,

what just happened here

at the restaurant?

Is that not chaos?

Is that not promoting hate?

Is that something that you think we should be doing?

Is that something done by, I don't know, an Islamist?

No.

A socialist?

Yes.

Antifa?

Yes.

Is that making us healthier?

Or is that bringing us to a place where we're at each other's throats?

How about the

socialists and the Islamists working hand in hand on the Israeli border?

It is happening.

But I'm sorry that we haven't had World War III yet.

But mark my words if we don't turn around.

It is coming.

It is coming.

The last thing is, what difference?

I don't care what you did in the past.

I really don't.

Can you be consistent today?

For instance, let me show you something that Brooke Baldwin said.

Now, I don't have praise for Brooke Baldwin very often, but it is as if she got a clue yesterday.

Brooke Baldwin has been part of this, you know, the media that is just trying to make this into something that Donald Trump has done.

No, it started under Clinton, it went to Bush, then it went to Obama.

He had more people in these, those, those, those blankets, those silver foil blankets, those pictures are from Obama's term.

And now Trump has,

you could say, made the situation worse.

How?

By following the law.

This isn't something that he is doing because he hates Mexicans or anything else.

He's enforcing the law.

And that means, because of the Supreme Court, you cannot keep the children with their parents.

So what do you do?

Well, we are supposed to go to Congress and work it out, but nobody in Congress wants to.

Why does nobody in Congress want to?

Because they have a winning issue why do they have a winning issue because the press sees a way to hurt the other side not to solve it nobody cares about these kids make no mistake you might care about those kids I care about those kids but nobody really cares about them what they care about is the next election the fundraising the ratings that's what they care about

Because we rarely see things like we saw from Brooke Baldwin yesterday, which is

intellectual integrity.

Listen to Baldwin as she asks a Democratic senator, where were you in 2014?

As so many people in this country are certainly outraged by the cages and the thermal blankets and the facilities housing these kids, you know, they were all there in 2014 under President Obama.

And my question to you, Senator Baldwin, is did you speak up against them then?

You know,

on this issue that we

get into a moment where we're making progress and then

when it stalls,

we turn around.

I think we all need to continue to be focused on it and press it through.

The American people need confidence that we can solve problems.

Okay, so we know who has intellectual integrity here.

I have to give credit to where credit is due, Brooke Baldwin.

She had intellectual integrity.

She had somebody who was complaining about it.

She knows that this has been going on for a long time.

Where were you then?

She asked the question.

The question is not answered.

She didn't expect it.

You can see she wasn't prepared for it.

She didn't expect anybody in the media to actually say that.

So she wasn't even prepared for it.

Well, I, you know, we move forward.

And then when we stop, we

am I on with Fox News?

What happened here?

Intellectual honesty and integrity.

It allows you to sleep at night.

It really does.

You don't have to think about what you have to say because you're consistent.

However, it does require you, intellectual honesty and integrity does require you to compare what you're saying about one subject, not only to yourself in the past, but also on other subjects.

For instance, the woman who was screaming there at Nielsen, she was screaming about how horrible it is to take these children and rip them apart from their parents.

These children

have no chance of making it now.

Are you saying the same thing about Planned Parenthood?

No, because that's a choice.

Okay, all right.

I disagree with you, but I'll give that to you.

How about when Planned Parenthood was taking these children and they were cutting them up and against the law, selling them for

their body parts.

Did you have a problem with organ harvesting, which is clearly against the law?

The answer is no.

Let me play one more.

This is Governor Cuomo, who is now suing Trump for border detentions.

Now, I want you to listen to this carefully.

Quickly explain the basis of your lawsuit against the Trump administration.

Sure.

Thanks for having me, Wolf and Go Buffalo.

The basis of the lawsuit is very simple.

It is a violation of the due process of the parents and of the children.

Our federal constitution provides due process rights to citizens and non-citizens, undocumented people.

And one of the fundamental rights is a parent's right to care, custody, and control of their child.

Stop.

And that has been violated.

Stop.

So he is very upset because parents have a right to care and custody

of their children.

Okay.

Well, let's go.

Let's start back.

Let's go back to due process.

You want to fix this?

Here's the easy way to fix it.

Ted Cruz has the fix.

All we have to do is appoint, I think it's, we have 200 and some judges that are on this.

We need about 800 judges to be able to handle the influx.

That way we can turn these things around in

in two weeks.

Everybody within 14 days will know whether you have asylum here or if you have to go home.

We also have to know if these really are your children or not.

We can do that.

All we have to do is hire more judges.

We can do that.

They're ready to do that.

All they have to do is vote on it in Congress.

No, nobody's going to vote on it in Congress.

Why?

Because it stops the argument of due process.

Well, here's the governor saying that that's what the problem is, due process.

The second problem is he says that it's the rights of the parents being violated.

You state just can't come in and take your kids.

You have a right to the care.

You have a right to

keep your children with you.

Really, governor, really,

really,

where are you?

Where were you?

Were you fighting for Justine Peltier?

Were you fighting for that girl?

Are Are you fighting for the children that are being taken and the parental rights are being taken by hospitals?

Are you on the front line speaking out about Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans?

Were you on the front lines of that saying, look, these are parental rights, and I know it's another country, but we are going to be facing these same kinds of issues because we are moving to a socialized health care system here, and we need to answer those issues.

The state cannot take the right of the parents away.

See, the problem is,

when you're just trying to win,

it's great.

You don't have to think about any of those things.

But when you want to have intellectual integrity, you must compare what you're saying here.

Does this

opinion work with all your other stances?

And if they're in conflict, then one of your stances is incorrect.

That

is what we all need to do.

And no one in the media or in Washington are willing to do it.

The question is, will you do the hard work to save our nation?

Soros may be a sign that more institutional investors are starting to get interested in cryptocurrency.

Venture capitalists

founded by the Rockefeller family, Venrock, getting into cryptos now.

Rockefellers have rumored net worth of a trillion dollars.

Holy cow.

And

they're big into early tech through Venrock, Apple, Intel.

They've made a lot of money.

A lot of people are getting into cryptocurrency, and a lot of people are freaking out because it's taking a bath.

Well, that's why we got together with Tatika Tiwari.

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I felt really bad for him.

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They said it's getting good reviews, and it's really good and useful.

The only problem with it is Glenn Beck,

he's a conspiracy theorist, so he hurts the crypto world.

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Okay.

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I don't have anything to do with this other than I asked Tika to put it together.

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Glenn back.

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All right, I just want to talk to

really anybody,

anybody who is,

just sit down and fix reason to her seat here for just a second and not play politics.

I know a lot of people are guys who think that Obama's, you know, the Obamas are

a gift to the world,

but I think that gift is kind of a metaphorical kind of gift.

It doesn't extend to helpful, tangible things like saving taxpayer money.

Illinois now has approved $224 million to pay for street and transportation upgrades around the planned site of the Obama Presidential Center.

Now, the catch is that the Illinois taxpayer is going to have to cover $200 million of that cost for a presidential museum.

Okay.

The people have to decide, is that worth it or not?

It could bring visitors in.

It could, you know help businesses all around it might not but that's up for the taxpayers to decide

and taxpayers should check their bank account first eight years of multiplying the national debt wasn't enough for Barack Obama look where we are now

but fleecing habits with all politicians are

they die hard

What's another 200 million?

Especially when you've got a tribute or a presidential museum to pay for.

It's all well and good, and every state can decide to do what they want.

However, America, we are going to actually be on the hook when Illinois collapses.

Because Illinois can not even fund its own pension system.

The state has a $137 billion funding shortfall.

That means that every person, every person in Illinois owes $11,000 for pension, and there is no plan to fix the mess.

So what's another $200 million?

Unless Illinois progressives have discovered a new kind of math, it doesn't add up.

You can't fund pensions, but you're going to figure out a way to milk the public for another $200 million to cover the cost of a library.

It's hard to imagine who in their right mind would think this will be money well spent, except for maybe the mayor of Chicago, the former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who said, quote, the state's investment in infrastructure improvements near the Obama Center on the south side of Chicago is money well spent.

Well, if it is, then the city of Chicago should do it and not the state of Illinois.

The spending has already been signed into law, even though the Obama Library hasn't received construction approval yet.

Part of the holdup is that the proposed site is on public land in historic Jackson Park.

Well, that's not very progressive, is it?

I mean, it's a historic district in Jackson Park, but you know, for some presidents, we'll go the extra mile.

Some presidential overreach lasts longer than others.

And this president has overreach that is going to last a long time as long as the citizens decide to keep paying more money.

Here's the thing about taxing the peasants so the king can build a fancy monument to himself.

It's wrong.

It's completely unnecessary.

If the city can show that it will actually increase income, make the case and let the voters decide.

But you also have to be really clear with the voters that you are hundreds of billions of dollars in debt with no way out.

The Obamas have the richest friends on the planet.

They could fund this entire project in their sleep.

The world simply must have a tricked-out Obama museum?

Good.

Then do what we do in Texas: let private citizens take out their wallets voluntarily.

As the Mercury Museum proved just this weekend, it is possible to build an exhibit with amazing artifacts that can attract a ton of visitors

that don't cost the taxpayers a single thin dime.

It's Thursday, June 21st.

This is the Glenbeck program.

So, how long ago was this, Stu?

A few months back, we had Tika Tawari come in.

He's from the Palm Beach Letter, and we asked him to come in because we are investors.

Stu and I are just, you know, amateur investors in cryptocurrencies, and

things were starting to get a little dicey.

And we were like, okay, can we need to figure some of this stuff out?

As we were talking to Tika,

he's really good at explaining things, and he's one of the long-term experts on this

and has made people very, very wealthy on cryptocurrencies.

And so we had him build a

smart crypto course for us.

Full disclosure, he is an advertiser on that.

But he's also a guy that we asked to build that for you because we thought that we needed it.

I'm sure other people do.

It's currently getting, you know, four out of five stars by like 95% of the people or 97% of the people who are using it.

It's really amazing.

He is a really good teacher.

He's on with us now.

Hello, Tika.

How are you?

I'm doing great, Glenn.

Thanks for having me on the show.

Sure.

So just give me a little bit of your background so the audience knows that you have some credibility in this.

Yeah, sure.

Actually, my background is originally from Wall Street.

I started working for Lehman Brothers when I was 18.

I was the youngest broker in the firm's history.

When I was 20, I became the youngest VP in the firm's history.

So I did that for a number of years and started a hedge fund back in 2003 and then started getting involved in cryptocurrency in 2016.

And when the penny dropped for me, when I really understood the value of this new asset class,

I just...

All I could do was talk about cryptocurrency.

And

I've been writing about it, been heavily involved in it, probably probably have relationships with just about every major VC firm, hedge fund, and development team in the world in terms of crypto.

Okay, so

the first thing I asked you just last week was,

There's a bloodbath going on.

What's happening?

You know,

there's a fear of heavy-handed regulation.

And every time we see the crypto market sell off, you can always tie it back to this particular fear of regulation.

So this specific fear is around the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the CFTC.

They're kind of the cops of Commodities and Futures.

So they need pricing data from crypto exchanges in order to make sure that their Bitcoin futures are priced correctly.

And so they approached several exchanges and asked for this data.

And the exchanges said, you know, we don't want to give it to you.

which was a shock to the CFTC.

So in this display of regulatory chest dumping, the CFT said, oh yeah, well, here's what we're going to do.

And they opened up a price manipulation investigation into just about every major crypto exchange.

And so this created this knee-jerk panic selling.

And the reason is, is that a common fear among crypto investors is that regulators will shut down the entire space.

This has always been the biggest fear in this sector.

But if you look at the facts, the fear doesn't square with reality.

So far, regulators have been looking for ways to bring the crypto asset class into a regulatory framework that will allow the asset to grow.

In fact, just yesterday, we saw an announcement from a Trump official, Mike Mulvaney, he's the acting director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said on Wednesday that we need a light touch with regulation.

You can't over-regulate this asset because you'll stifle innovation.

So I'm seeing that, excuse me, across the board with multiple regulators that I'm speaking to, they're telling me, take a look, we don't want to kill this thing.

We just want to make sure that it doesn't get out of hand and that you have the rampant fraud that we've seen in the past.

Right.

And

I think that's really good.

But my concern is, I mean, I'm sitting here with a headline today, de-dollarization escalates.

Russia sells off record amount of U.S.

Treasury bonds, yada, yada.

You know, there is a problem with currency and the banking and everything that else is going on.

And these central banks are not just going to let go of their power.

And quite honestly, I can't imagine that the governments

are not going to want all of the information from cryptocurrencies because that's another reason why cryptocurrency is so good is the government has no right in my business as long as it's legal.

They have no right in my business.

And so I can move my money anywhere I want to go.

I mean, if,

you know, if I'm living in China, I don't have to worry about taking money with me.

All I have to do is sneak across the border, and I've got the digits in my head.

I've got all my money.

How do these countries not,

when they start to collapse, grab on to this?

It's the decentralized nature of cryptocurrency really prevents it from governments actually taking it over.

The same way that governments don't like file sharing services, there's no way to shut them down.

The decentralized nature makes these assets incredibly valuable and incredibly resistant to external forces such as forced confiscation by governments.

You know, it's one of the beauties of Bitcoin, Glenn.

If you protect your private key,

no one knows you have that Bitcoin and no one has the ability to take that Bitcoin from you.

Is there any country that is thinking about going into this and just saying, look, I don't want to build our own.

We just want to ride on the back and

we'll use this as currency.

I mean, I would imagine that Venezuela

would be smart to do something like this.

Well, Bitcoin is the unofficial currency of Venezuela right now.

It's really how much of the population is feeding themselves.

There's this underground economy right now that is completely built around Bitcoin.

Now, there are other countries that are looking at floating a version of their own currency in a crypto format, like a crypto fiat.

China's talked about it, Russia's talked about it, even Switzerland's talked about it.

Now,

you know, to me, putting a if you take paper money and you just digitize it, it's just the same thing as paper money, right?

It can be created at will, it can be confiscated at will, it gives the government a total inside view into how you're spending your money.

So a lot of people have a fear, Glenn, that, oh, what happens when the dollar moves to a digital format?

Won't that make Bitcoin irrelevant?

And I say no, it'll actually make Bitcoin more valuable because Bitcoin gives you the privacy and gives you that custody of your own capital that you'll never have with fiat money.

Tika, we had this period where everyone kind of

became excited about cryptocurrencies.

They obviously went up, and they're up a ton from just a year ago still.

People kind of lose sight of that uh with the recent drop but it i i it feels like for this to be a real thing and for it to really change the world at some point we're going to need to see applications that people can actually interact with it can't just be people using it as you know digital gold or whatever it needs to be something where people can interact with it or we're seeing real improvements in people's lives because of it is is that coming around the corner

it is coming around the corner I think if you ask the people in Venezuela or places where they have capital controls, controls, they are already seeing their life be improved by cryptocurrency.

In terms of improvements that you and I will see, there are several technical things that are happening behind the scenes with currencies such as Bitcoin that are going to completely transform it.

You know, most people right now looking at Bitcoin, they're saying, oh, this thing's down 60%.

You know, did I buy the steam car of the blockchain revolution?

That fear is very real.

So,

you know, a lot of people asked this question back in 03 with Apple Computer.

And

the problem is that the perception of technology didn't keep up with the pace of the actual innovation.

So the same thing is happening with Bitcoin.

The pace of innovation is moving faster than people's perception of it.

So again, the prime example, in 2003, Apple Computer was valued at a dollar, and nobody realized the value of the innovations that they were making there with things like iPods and their iOS system.

You know, fast forward, it's now $200 a share.

So the same thing is happening with

Bitcoin.

Right now, people view Bitcoin as being slow and Bitcoin as being expensive.

But by the end of this year, there's going to be a technological leap called the Lightning Network that will allow Bitcoin to handle thousands of transactions simultaneously.

And it will take costs from over a dollar a transaction down to a millionth of a penny, right?

So it's the functional equivalent of going from a dial-up modem to fiber optic broadband in a year.

So it's this technological leap that the world is not grasping right now with Bitcoin.

And I've seen that play out, Glenn, again and again in a lot of different tech stories where people just didn't understand the pace of the innovation.

I've only got about a minute left.

Can you just talk about, you know, you were trading in tech stocks when the bubble burst, and you told me, you know, you panicked and you lost millions of dollars yourself if you just would have had the courage to stand.

You want to tell that real quick?

Yeah, so this was in actually the early 90s.

In 1990, most of the tech stocks dropped about 85%.

There was tremendous fear in the market.

And I remember owning stocks like Oracle, and it was trading at a split equivalent of 12 cents.

I was down 85%,

got scared, sold.

A lot of my clients sold.

And then, not just Oracle, a bunch of stocks.

And then I went back and I did a back test on that.

What would have happened if I would have held?

I would have made over $20 million by the time I was 29 by the end of that decade.

Right.

So this is why I'm so fervent about this.

This is early innings.

The entire market space is tiny.

Very well-respected people in the space expect this to be a $20 trillion market.

It's under $300 billion today.

The opportunity is still massive for transformational wealth in this space.

Tika, thank you so much.

Tika Tiwari from the SmartCryptoCourse.com.

We're also doing something, I think it is July, what is it, the 19th or something, Tika?

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We've got a special event.

It's going to be great.

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Tika, thanks so much.

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Well, here is

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The Supreme Court just ruled that

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And they can force out of state companies to collect it, which is the big ruling there.

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Yeah, and there's a couple, I don't know, dangerous precedents.

I mean, because you could apply this to all sorts of stuff.

And it makes, I don't know, it makes me kind of nervous.

The idea that, listen to this, this is

from the ruling today.

The internet revolution has made the original error they're talking about a previous ruling all the more egregious and harmful.

The court did not have before it the present realities of the interstate marketplace, whereas the internet's prevalence and power have changed the dynamics of the national economy.

How many times have you heard that argument be used as a defense, right?

Like, well,

the founders didn't have have the internet in front of them.

How could they have given the First Amendment?

We should change it.

Oh, hey, well, they didn't have all these weapons that they have now when they came up with the Second Amendment.

We should change it.

This is really, this is frightening, especially on free speech, because read that sentence again.

The court did not have before it the present realities of

the interstate marketplace where the internet's prevalence and power have changed the dynamics of a national economy.

Just changed national economy to national dialogue.

Yeah.

And it has.

The internet internet has greatly changed the national dialogue.

And does this open the door for now speech to be regulated?

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I've got a couple of things to do that I just want to run down quickly.

Have you seen the Michael Cohen stuff?

A little bit, yeah.

I mean, it's so, I'm so, you know, the media is so bad at reporting on Trump and the inner workings of that White House that I'm, you know, I don't know whether to believe it or not.

Well, this is coming from Alan Dershowitz, and Alan Dershowitz speaks with Trump quite often.

And he's saying that

he thinks that Michael Cohen is panicking and is sending Trump signals that you better help me or I'm going to start talking.

And the reason why he is under criminal investigation for campaign finance violations, bank fraud, wire fraud, illegal lobbying, possible other crimes.

And

they're looking to cut a deal.

He may be looking to cut a deal.

He's just hired a firm that is known for deal cutting, according to Dershowitz, again, who is on Trump's side.

And apparently the fees, his legal bills, are bankrupting him.

And he is apparently a little angry that Trump is not helping him out on the legal bills at all.

And

it's interesting that's it's coming from Dershowitz because there's a lot of people who are trying to put a rift

here.

There's been a lot of reports from unnamed sources that are saying, hey,

you know, who got treated really badly by Donald Trump is Michael Cohen.

He's always really mean to people.

Trying to start trying to get that type of stuff.

Yeah.

And so I don't believe it, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time.

That's all the time we're going to spend on it.

But I thought it was interesting because it's coming from Dershowitz, who is actually trying to help the president.

Also, just an update from the Washington Post: Russian trolls are exploiting, what a surprise, the rift that is happening here internally in our country on the border.

They are sending out all kinds of stories that are, you know, pro, keep them in cages and

against, you know, detainment, and they are playing to the fringes and they are milking it for everything it's worth.

We are being manipulated again by by the Russians.

Be really careful.

And I will tell you that we're being manipulated on several fronts.

And this is really kind of what a portion of my book that's coming out this September, Addicted Outrage, is about, is how you're being manipulated, how outrage is being used to get you to buy things,

support things,

lock you into a group, get you to just march in lock step, and everybody involved knows they're doing it.

And right now, we're being used by the Russians, we're being used by the media, social and

regular mainstream media, being used for the ratings.

Why else would you put people that you know are going to vehemently disagree with each other and have the most disparate points of view on this?

Why are you putting them together so they could fight?

Why are you doing that?

Instead, why don't we talk about the real issue and say, okay, so what is it?

80% of us want this law to stop.

80%.

14% say, no, I want this law to stand.

What is it that we do agree on?

We agree on we don't want to have parents broken up with their kids.

Okay?

We don't want the families broken up.

We all agree on that, or the vast majority of us agree on that.

Okay, so now how do we get there?

I mean, MSNBC today

is claiming that Donald Trump has just made this worse.

How?

How has he made this worse?

Well, in my opinion,

you could argue that

it is worse if we don't appoint judges, because now what we've just done is codified the catch and release.

Now, after how many days is it due?

25 days?

I think it's 20 days.

20 days.

After 20 days, if they haven't had a trial or haven't seen a judge, they have to be released.

Well, so now we've just codified it.

Okay, well, we didn't want to do that.

We need judges.

Now,

if you do believe that we should know who's here and we shouldn't just have, you know, Wild West borders, which the vast majority of people do believe that, they want to know who's here.

If you do believe that, then all we have to do is appoint

probably about 500 judges just for this massive influx.

And this is all they do, is they hear court cases every day so we can adjudicate them within 14 days.

Send people home that should be home.

Keep people here that should be here.

It's easy to fix.

Nobody really wants to fix it.

Nobody wants to fix it because the Democrats can raise money, the Republicans can raise money, websites can get hits on the outrage and the hatred back and forth, and CNN and MSNBC and Fox and everybody else gets ratings.

That's the truth.

We're being manipulated.

If you want to play that game, just know it going in.

It doesn't lead to anything good.

If you actually care about the kids, let's have a different conversation.

And that is, how do we actually solve this?

And the only way to solve it is to go through Congress and actually look at what we want as a people.

and have a reasonable dialogue and come together and enforce the laws.

Because again, when you say Trump could just change this with a stroke of a pen, with a call to sessions, that's true.

What could he do?

He could go back to the Obama policy.

Right.

Which I don't want it.

If anyone has noticed, but Trump doesn't want the Obama policy.

In fact, you know who else doesn't want it?

The American people.

They voted for the other guy, right?

They could have had another four years of Obama with Hillary Clinton, and they went the other direction.

So the issue here is not, it's not, these things don't exist in a vacuum.

There are alternatives.

The alternative of what we have done for a very long time, not just through Obama, but before as well, is to take these guys, the people that come in and keep them together, but just release them within our borders with no restrictions.

Just the restriction to say, hey, come back in a few months when you have a hearing.

And they don't come back.

But 40% of them don't show.

So you're giving a giant pass to illegal immigrants and you're increasing those numbers dramatically.

What this new executive order does is you will have 20 days to figure the thing out.

When you don't have it figured out, we want parents to stay together.

The only alternative left is to release them once again into our borders with no restrictions and only a promise to come back later, which they will not hold up.

And so, this is not just a, this is honestly not just a problem

because, oh, well, then we've got people here and

we don't know who they are.

It's also

there is is a ton of evidence that because of the catch and release, especially with

youth,

that

people are being used by the drug cartels.

Some of them are being hired by the drug cartels.

Others are being

conscripted, which means they're being forced to do it.

And these are kids under 18.

Now, this was happening under the Obama administration.

It's still happening today.

These kids are coming in, and what's happening is the drug cartels know that they can't be held.

An adult would be, but they can't be.

So they get these kids to take kids for the drug cartels across the border.

Now, some of these kids are being paid.

Their trip is being paid for by their parents.

Others have been taken and they're being used now in the drug trade or they are

human trafficking.

They're slaves.

And they're being taken by these 16, 17 year olds across the border.

Obama was holding some of these kids and holding them for, I think, up to 200 days.

The majority of them, I think, were held for like 70 some plus days, which you couldn't do, but he also knew

this is a scam.

They're going to just come back and they're going to sit another 20 days and it doesn't matter.

We feed them, we clothe them, they go back, they make their money from the drug lords, they come back with more kids, they sit there for 20 days, and then the game continues.

These are the complex issues that shouting never gets us to

even hear, let alone solve.

Starbucks, I just want to get this off my desk.

Starbucks sinks after announcing a weaker-than-expected sales forecast and plans to close 100 stores next year, up to 150 unperforming stores in 2019.

That's up from an average pace of 50 closures every year.

Comments, Stu?

Well, you know, many things have happened.

Obviously, kind of the headline for Talk Radio was their bizarre handling of the people who want to come in and go to the bathroom and hang out

in the store without buying anything.

And now that they've instituted that international policy is a bizarre choice.

But they also lost their CEO, who seems to want to play fantasy president.

So that could be coming up soon.

And, you know, these are, you know, it's always bigger than this.

There's always more than one reason.

It's interesting to see if this has a long-term effect because now Starbucks, Starbucks was always seen as kind of a left-wing

place, right?

But it's interesting to see if when these things become culture battles, you almost feel disloyal to your side to go inside of them.

That's the way a lot of people feel.

Now, I don't feel that way.

I'm not, you know, as, you know, we've talked about boycotts and things like that.

You know, we generally don't get on those bandwagons.

Here's the way the more tribal it gets, the more that's real.

Yeah, and I think it becomes this.

You remember when West Wing was on and Martin Sheen was the president?

Yeah.

I loved West Wing.

I loved it.

Now,

it didn't agree with me very often for sure.

No.

Okay.

And neither did

Martin Sheen, obviously.

But I loved the show.

I used to love to watch it.

I never boycotted it when Martin Sheen really started to go anti-George Bush.

Never boycotted it.

I actually tried to watch it.

It just made it really hard for me to enjoy it because I saw Martin Sheen as Martin Sheen and not the president.

You know what I mean?

And that was his choice and his right to do it.

But I wasn't boycotting.

I just eventually just gave up on it because

it wrecked the show for me.

Yeah.

And that's what's going to happen to places like Starbucks or anybody that takes, you know, either side.

You're going to go tribal and maybe, maybe

that will work for you.

But if you want to be a universal, if you don't want to cut your audience in half, if you don't want to cut your

customers and customer base in half, then you need to just shut your mouth.

You make coffee, make coffee, treat your employees right, treat your customers right, and then let those customers see that and go, you know, I really like these people.

I wonder what makes them different.

Huh?

Oh, they run their business like this because they're all socialists, whatever.

Okay.

But if you are jamming it down people's throats, you are going to cut your customer base in half.

And I don't think, if I'm a shareholder, I don't think that's the best thing to do.

So cybercrime.

Cybercrime now has gone into DNA testing.

This is really, truly frightening, what's happening, because my son is adopted and I want to do, you know, ancestry,

you know, genetic testing on him.

I'd like to do the history stuff on me even.

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Glenn back.

So we're all quite excited.

Stu is filling in for Pat today, who is very, very, very, very ill, I believe, or on a cruise.

Yeah.

But I'm going to go for the ill thing because he could call in today, and his last words might happen today on the show.

It's like a vacation, but to a hospital.

That's what we're thinking of it as.

If you think of an Alaska cruise in the summer as a hospital, that's exactly where he is.

Who knows?

Could he hit iceberg?

We don't know.

We don't know.

That's happened before.

Yep, exactly right.

Look at your history.

Know it.

Know your history.

All right.

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