'It's All About The Children'? - 6/13/18

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Who is running Seattle?

I really want to know who is running Seattle.

Is it a bunch of former Iron Curtain bureaucrats?

Is it five-year-olds?

Or is it morons?

It could be a combination.

I'm not sure.

Last month, the genius that's running Seattle decided to tax its biggest assets, its businesses.

Well, that was four weeks ago.

Do you remember how old you were four weeks ago?

Seattle unanimously approved the so-called head tax on big companies like Amazon and Starbucks.

And this was just to, quote, solve the homeless crisis.

Seattle has

the third highest homeless rate in the nation.

Now that's saying something because it's always rainy and damp and nasty outside.

So

you have no home and you're living in Seattle?

The head tax was

set to begin in January.

It would have collected taxes from all of their biggest businesses.

First, the city said, we're going to have a $500 tax for full-time employees.

Then they walked that back to $275 for every employee.

Oh, well, that's great.

The city said that's going to raise about $48 million,

and that's going to really go a long way to solve our homeless problem.

Guarantee it wouldn't have.

They already spend $78 million on homelessness every single year.

I'm sorry.

This year,

so far, they have spent $78 million.

Now, media reports are pinning the city's change of heart on the businesses going,

hello.

Did I mention that

they've changed their mind on this?

Multiple businesses, Amazon, Starbucks, have all sponsored a campaign called No Tax on Jobs to get the referendum on the ballot this November that would get rid of the tax.

Well, it looks like now the referendum is not going to be necessary.

The Democratic mayor said the city council heard the protests from the companies and don't want to engage in a prolonged, expensive political fight over the next five months that will do nothing to tackle our urgent housing and homelessness crisis.

So yesterday, the Seattle City Council,

they voted to go, oh,

yeah, we're not going to do that.

Now, one city council member who is a socialist called the repeal of the tax a capitulation to bullying by Amazon and other big businesses.

She said, it's a complete betrayal of the working class.

Oh my gosh, I want to break out in the Soviet national anthem.

Actually, I hate to break this to her, but

this tax was a betrayal to the working people.

The showdown in Seattle is a classic case of progressive big government trying to throw money at a problem like homelessness with a strategy that actually hurts a company's ability to hire which would cause layoffs and thus say it with me more homelessness

if you're spending $78 million a year on homelessness this year it might be time to reassess your spending habits the top three U.S.

cities with the largest homeless populations New York Los Angeles and Seattle when will the voters in those cities realize that there might be a slight correlation between the progressive government and the homeless problem?

It's Wednesday, June 13th.

This is the Glenbeck program.

I have a feeling it's not going to be anytime soon.

So

if you are living, let's say in San Francisco, you got to love it, right?

You got to love it.

It is like one of the number one cities where people are screaming to get out.

If you pull the people in all around the country, San Francisco, I think, is number one with people like, if I could move, I would move in a heartbeat.

Now, that's saying something because San Francisco, I believe, is the greatest city in all of America.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

I do.

Have you just visited the one city or San Francisco?

Is that the one you've been to?

That's the one I've been to.

Okay, so yeah.

I haven't even really been to Dallas here.

No, I just

a great city.

It has everything.

It has water.

It's close to mountains.

It's moderate in temperature.

It's very

incredibly progressive sounding.

It's very walkable.

It's very walkable.

It is, though.

It's one of those you can go on vacation and you just kind of walk around and you get to stuff all over the place.

It's a great, great city.

It's really a great city.

They have almost completely destroyed that as a livable city

because the homelessness, they're militant.

They're militant.

And they're currently crapping all over the streets of San Francisco.

Well, you're just saying that because we were there fairly recently, and there's a lot of crap in the streets.

That's just why you're saying that.

Yeah, and when you say crap in the streets, we actually mean fecal matter.

Right.

And not from dogs.

Human fecal matter.

Yeah.

This is, and by the way, we were there for the Super Bowl.

Yeah.

And it was cleaned up.

Yeah.

Super Bowl cities tend to clean themselves up when lots of visitors come.

It was, it was still, I mean, I don't know if they made a statement, they decided to go the other way

and add more fecal matter to the streets.

Can we get people, look, could the average citizen just start crapping in the streets just this week?

I mean, it was bizarre.

We're going to prove a point to all these outsiders.

Yeah, it's bizarre.

But that's what you're what you're missing here is yes, they're progressive.

Okay, yes.

Occasionally they pass some left-wing policies.

Right, occasionally.

But they give choices to their constituents.

They do.

They are pro

choice.

Amen, brother.

Now, listen, if you're living in San Francisco, you're dealing with a massive homeless problem.

You're dealing with prices that are unheard of.

It is absolutely,

at the same time, it's the greatest city.

It is the most unlivable city.

in America.

It's just, you cannot afford to live there.

They don't make it easy.

Well, no.

No.

No.

But that's why they're going to make sure, you know, they want to make it better for kids.

You know, this is all about the children, as you know.

These tax increases are always about the children.

It's not about power.

It's not about anything other than just helping young people, people that are young.

Now, I did also say that they're pro-choice.

So they don't, not that young.

No, it's kind of the maze range.

There's a nice range of a little older than the ones we're getting rid of and selling for parts, but

the older ones, and we care about them because of the tax increase.

So that's how we show how we care.

We say, look, someday you can get a job or not.

You could just crap in the streets.

But if you get a job,

you're going to love to pay it forward in these taxes.

Well, a lot of people will buy presents for their spouse on an anniversary.

I just raise taxes on her.

It shows that I love her.

Amen, brother.

That's what I do.

Now, San Francisco just voted, had a big vote on Proposition C and Proposition D.

Okay.

Now, Proposition D is known as the Housing for All Initiative.

The Housing for All.

Now, that is something you might say, hey, are they going to do something with the homeless problems?

Yeah.

It's about the children.

Don't worry.

Don't ask about that.

Now, this would

affect taxes slightly.

There is a slight difference in taxes.

Okay, but this is going to be to help.

It's going to help children.

Housing for all.

And children.

And children.

This would boost the city's gross receipts tax on commercial rents.

Now, if you don't know what a gross receipts tax is, because you have a life,

it's not something that happens that often anymore.

Why?

Because it doesn't tax you on your profit.

It taxes you on the gross receipts.

So all the money you get, you get taxed on, whether you're making a profit or not.

Even if you're losing money as as a business, you still get taxed on that.

That is good.

That's good.

That's good.

Now, those things have pretty much gone away nationwide, but they still, now they're proposing new ones in San Francisco

for the children.

Okay, for the children.

So, this is a tax on

the rent?

Yeah, on commercial rents.

Now, they already have the second highest rents in the nation behind only New York.

Well, you don't want to be

number two.

You don't want to be number two.

You want to raise them up.

So, this proposition D would increase the taxes taxes

on gross receipts, yes, only by 460%, though.

And that is not, I wouldn't say too much

for the children.

Is that too much for the children?

No, it's not.

No, it's not.

You love children or you don't love children.

You love children or you want to see them die.

If you love children, you'll pay 400% more in tax.

If you don't love children and you want them to die,

you know, whatever, whatever.

Yeah.

But God is watching you.

Right, of course.

If there was a God.

Now, this would only be a $70 million tax increase for the city's businesses, which is nothing.

I mean, it's basically only.

And again, is $70 million too much for kids?

Do you think kids are worth, what, $69 million?

What's your value on the lives of children other than the ones we abort?

Right.

What's your value?

Well, I don't.

Well, I mean, can I sell them?

No.

We sell them.

There's lots of products to make there.

Okay.

The measure has attracted

a number of prominent endorsements, including San Francisco Chronicle, editorial board, mayoral candidates, pro-development groups, blah, blah, blah.

Pro-development groups.

But Proposition D also had opponents.

Over half the city's Board of Supervisors has come out against it, including as well as SEIU, a very powerful union, as you know.

They did not want this.

And you think SEIU supports every tax increase.

Why wouldn't they want a 460% tax increase?

And this is where the choice comes in for California voters that I think California voters appreciate.

They say, okay, well, there's, you know, we're just looking for some sensible ideas.

And then, you know, the progressives will step in and say, hey, a 400% tax increase.

You know, that's, we think that's sensible.

And there's others that say, that's not sensible.

Right.

We need common sense reforms.

I need common sense reform.

So you had a choice.

And the choice was...

The critics have thrown their support behind Proposition C.

C.

Proposition C

would also increase the city's gross receipts tax.

Now, that's you kind of might expect.

Yeah, you're like, okay, come on, 400% is crazy.

Maybe, maybe just increase them by 100%.

Or 200%.

Or something sensible.

Yes.

Something, yes.

Something sensible.

That's what I was thinking.

This is, it's in that range.

Okay.

Kind of.

All right.

Does it start with a one?

It does.

It starts with a one.

Okay, good.

All right.

All right.

Proposition

C would boost the city's gross receipts tax by 1,066%.

So you could either have the 460% increase or the 1,066% increase.

Right.

Now, which doesn't

seem like I want either.

Okay.

See, that's

you don't care about kids, is what you're saying.

Wow.

He doesn't care about children.

He does not care about children.

I'm just thinking if I'm doing business there

and this is on my gross receipts,

I'm not having.

Like, let's say per unit that you rent, it costs you $1,000 to

run this building.

And you charge $1,200 in rent.

So you have a $200 profit.

They're not taxing the $200 profit.

They're taxing $1,200, all of it.

So you're going to now go from profitable to not profitable because of the tax.

Yeah, but that will help take the money and the

it'll it you know what

what it will take the

uh the the evil

industrialist, the evil capitalist, the evil business owner,

and get rid of them.

So then the land can go back to the people.

Right, or something like that.

Or something like that.

Because certainly it's not going to raise rents to yet another ridiculous level.

So no one can find.

No, okay, good.

No, that won't happen.

Now, this one.

When it does, they should pass rent control.

Yes, and that would fix it.

proposition D would raise $70 million in taxes proposition C $146 million in taxes Well, that's probably not accurate You know as we have seen no matter how high you raise the income tax It generally receipts remain around 18%

right so it doesn't matter because

You know, you're going to put people out of business

People are going to find a way around it.

So I'm not sure that it will raise the entire $150,000.

Never seen millions.

Never seen it.

Now, if you were like, I don't know, I'm not sure which way to go, you should probably know how the San Francisco chapter of the Democratic Socialists are ruling on this.

They have thrown their support shockingly behind the 1,066% tax increase, calling the 460% tax increase a crass attempt to break working-class solidarity.

So, how did this turn out?

You're going to be stunned.

You're going to be stunned by this.

No, it's San Francisco.

I think they probably voted for the

is everybody crazy in San Francisco?

I'm just let me debate this here for a second.

Voters,

it's an off year.

So you're getting those who are passionate.

I think there was enough to go for the 400% increase

and not go for the thousand.

Although I think I'm out on a limb

because San Francisco is totally nuts.

Yes, and you also seem to believe San Francisco doesn't care about children, which is strange, other than the ones that they abort.

The ones that actually make it past the abortion process, they don't care about those babies or something.

Measure D, this is the one that raised taxes 460% on commercial landlords, failed, failed, failed Failed.

55.2% to 44.8%.

Okay.

So that one did not even come close, really.

However,

Measure C, the 1,066% tax increase is currently leading 50.7 to 49.3 in a race that has not officially been called yet.

It's too close to call as they

finalize the voting.

It does look like it's going to pass, though.

So it looks like they will increase the rent tax by 1,066%.

The good news is, let's say you have a restaurant in one of the, you know, just on the streets of San Francisco.

By the way, write that down.

We should start a TV show and call it that.

That's a good idea.

But, you know, let's just say this: you know, you've got a restaurant out there.

The good news is you are now paying more in taxes

so your customers can come in, in still

pay higher you know uh uh rates for your food

and still

as they come in no matter what how bad your food is they'll be like

thank god it doesn't smell like human fecal matter in here

and i think i think that's one of the advantages of having a business in San Francisco.

You don't have to be good.

You know, if you're in the restaurant business, you just have to make sure your food doesn't smell like fecal matter on the outside of your business, and you're going to be a massive success.

And the good thing is, the more successful you are, the more taxes you will pay.

Therefore,

the more you care about children.

Yay.

It's great.

Keep pooping on the streets, San Francisco.

By the way, we should also point out that they also passed another tax that would give legal help to tenants facing eviction.

So now that they've raised taxes on the rents, they also are raising taxes to give money to people who are being evicted.

And they raise taxes

for schools.

Oh my gosh, what is wrong with Californians?

And they also got clean energy bonds passed.

I don't know if you know.

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See in Seattle.

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Yeah.

Stu has immediately jumped.

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Of course it's not bad.

Wait until you hear, and this one affects you.

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We

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of artifacts that are going to be in the building.

And it's going to be pretty remarkable and we'd love for you to attend.

This is the first time we've ever opened the entire studio.

I mean, you know, back of house and everything.

We've opened up the property cages and everything else because we have so much stuff to show you and we're really excited to show it to you.

$30 million?

$30 million.

Wow, it's a lot.

You're thinking about...

I have a key.

I don't think that's something that you announce to the

I just think if there's an enterprising

person out there who is interested in history, maybe they could contact me.

There is.

It's weird because this is the first time that we've, you know, we've always hired police and we have security here all the time.

And we've, whenever we do these museums, we have extra security.

This time, we have been required to have

there's some special group of people that this is all they do is protect artifacts.

And they're like, I don't know, some like, I don't know, ma sad badass museum people.

So

it should be proved to be interesting, just kind of behind the scenes.

But we would love for you to attend.

Tickets are still on sale this weekend.

The Rights and Responsibilities exhibit,

some uh is already sold out some some uh good portions of the day are already sold out we would love for you to attend we'll be here all weekend long uh and learn about history and show it to your kids there's some remarkable stuff and it's important to remember of course no matter how much security you have i mean it's never you can never guarantee you know

especially if you have somebody on the inside well i mean um there's a current documentary out in theaters called oceans eight And

they show not a documentary.

They show a pretty detailed plan of how someone could

potentially.

But you would really need inside information on the layout of the thing.

A lot of times that's part of it, like where there's someone inside who knows the layout, who maybe has access to it.

Do you know anybody that would be that bad that would do something like that?

That what?

Huh?

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All right.

I've got some good news for you, Stu, because there is another ballot measure in California.

Oh, wow.

And this one is coming

this November.

Now, the last ballot measure we just talked about increased the taxes on

rental property

by 1,000%.

A little over that.

Well, you know.

Why be picky?

I mean, you're, you know, let's

California has

now on their ballot, they're going to be asking voters,

if they agree or disagree,

to break up into three separate states.

They are voting in November.

And if the majority of voters cast the ballot to break it up into Northern California, Southern California, and yes, California.

California has the majority of the beach, by the way.

Southern California, though, has San Diego and all of that.

California would be the smallest.

It is all the beach line in Los Angeles and Hollywood, all the way up to Monterey.

Then Northern California

is right up by San Francisco, all the way up to the border of Oregon.

Southern California cuts out past the valley and then goes down into San Diego.

So they're breaking it up into three.

They want to break it up into three states.

What's their reason?

What do you mean, what's their reason?

Why are they?

Do you need reasons in California?

Absolutely not.

Okay, so

this is the first time.

that this will have been done or voted on since 1863 when Virginia split into Virginia and West Virginia.

So

here's what

they're wanting to do.

Los Angeles County is the one that

would retain the name California.

And

what they're hoping will happen is economic stability.

They say that the rural regions would suffer from extraordinary rates of poverty as individual states, while the coastal communities would flourish in the new smaller states where the lion's share of California's tax revenue is generated.

What they're trying to do is they're trying to make the areas smaller

so it will be more responsive to that area.

Because right now, just the big cities are sucking up all of the resources as this guy says, well, it's going to be poverty because, you know, it's most of the money is there.

Yeah, but most of the spending is there too.

And so they're trying to break it up and give people

a chance to, you know, vote for what's good for their region.

Can California, though, dictate to the United States that it now has 52 states?

Like,

are they, is that something that can happen?

I mean, maybe it is.

I don't know.

It actually is.

I thought it was wrong,

but it is in the Constitution.

It's really hard to do.

California can do it without any federal approval.

Like, there's no role of the United States.

Again, like, you know, I'm a big federalism guy, but maybe, so maybe there's a reason for this.

But, you know, there was a big deal when we added, you know, state 49 and 50.

It's a big, usually there's a big deal that goes on with that.

If we're just, I mean, I guess because

it's the same territory.

I'm trying to find it where it is in this article.

But there is a section.

Here it is.

Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S.

Constitution, provision guiding how an existing state can be divided into new states.

I thought you couldn't

divide an existing state into two.

I could see that you could do it, but it has to go through a process that would involve the federal government.

as well, but apparently not.

They say that it is rather lengthy and complicated to get through.

But I think this is good.

If they've divided it to where

the farmers have to answer to the farmers, you know what I mean?

Well, yeah, right.

Yes, exactly.

Like that, you could see there being

just like you don't want everything run by the federal government, you want it run at the smallest level possible, having a gigantic state that's not necessarily responsive to all the areas is a problem.

But in theory, this would give them four new senators, would it not?

If they have two new states, they got four new senators.

Oh, shut up.

So now we have 104 senators.

There's got to be some role.

Senators, yeah.

No, it would be senators.

There's got to be some role for the federal government.

You can't just have an unlimited amount of senators from one state that just keep dividing it into little pieces.

Well, wait a minute.

If you can,

Texas is one of Texas.

100 states.

Good Texas.

Wow.

I mean, look at that.

They can't control California.

They can't serve the people in California.

Texas, look how large Texas is.

We seem to get it done here.

Yeah.

And you know how?

Our state house only meets every other year.

We don't pass a lot of state laws.

The state doesn't interfere.

The local governments take care of things.

I saw one of the biggest problems that has developed and is on both sides is it's become common,

the common complaint about the government is,

you know, they don't do anything.

You know, these people, they don't get anything done.

They shouldn't be getting a lot of things done.

Other than reversing the crap they've already tried to do, they should be pretty much sitting back.

I don't care if they never show up to Washington, D.C.

If all they can, they can repeal stuff stuff online, and that's pretty much all we need them to do.

There's plenty of laws.

There's plenty of laws.

I mean,

look at their solutions in California.

Look at the solutions they come up with in California.

Has life in California become better?

Has it become easier?

Has it caused jobs to grow?

Let me ask Hollywood: have all of your unions and all of your rules, has that helped?

You were Hollywood, USA.

It was the greatest place.

If you were going to make a movie, that's where you made a movie.

Shockingly, that's now what?

Vancouver?

People will make it anywhere but Hollywood.

Have all of your rules, your regulations, your labor unions, all of your taxes, has it helped you?

The answer is no.

What is it going to take for californians to learn that

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It's a little remarkable.

Mark Sanford lost last night in his primary.

He has been,

I think he has a remarkable story.

I mean, he went from a guy who was really, really great to a guy who made a huge personal failing

to coming back and

just knocking it out of the park.

He was a congressman who was standing for the conservative principles.

And

I don't know what he did other than not vote in lockstep every time with Donald Trump.

I mean, it was 90%, wasn't he?

I think it was 80.

But so he was,

as I believe, one of the, I heard on CNN, one of the supporters

who was wanting Sanford to lose, phrase it, he was the fourth most disloyal congressman, which I guess.

Could you say that again, please?

Yeah, I would like to, yeah.

He was the fourth most disloyal Republican congressman.

Which, again, I don't know.

I think their loyalty.

What's their loyalty to, again?

Well, they have an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

So, how would they rate the fourth most disloyal to the Constitution exactly?

I don't think there's a rating necessarily for that.

I know if you go by the Liberty, like the Liberty, the Conservative Review, and

other ratings agencies that care about the Constitution, Sanford does incredibly well.

But he was the fourth most disloyal in this particular analysis, which again, you know, look,

a lot of people made the case to us.

You know, we've we're not huge, uh, we're not big Trump fans in the primary, as many people would recall.

However, the case after the primary was: it's Trump or Hillary, which is a very understandable case that we talked about many times.

Hillary would have been much, much worse than Donald Trump has been on policy through this administration.

There's no question about it.

They're light years apart, further apart than I would have believed.

However, this is not Trump versus Hillary.

This is Trump.

This is loyalty to a president versus Mark Sanford, who's been unquestionably great on conservative policies.

It's an interesting place that we're in because, you know,

I don't like loyalty oaths.

You know, can you imagine?

And I mean this.

Take this at any other point in history.

Think of what you would have said about a liberal who changed their vote because the president told them to.

I would not live my life for a second in a place where I felt because the president tweeted to vote a certain way, I would listen.

It would make me less likely.

You know, endorsements, we've always joked about them.

Who cares what the endorsements are?

Who listens to endorsements?

You make up your own mind.

Well, I don't know.

At least according to Donald Trump's analysis of this situation, he's the one that changed it.

And it's hard to disagree with him.

It may not have been the tweet, but

Sanford's opponent was running on I'm more Trump than Mark Sanford is.

And she was right.

She is.

You know, she pointed out that this is Donald Trump's party.

And I, you know, it is, and clearly, right?

I don't think there's no opposition, is there?

It is going to end like the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party became Obama's party.

And you don't do that.

You don't build a party around a person.

It doesn't work out well.

I mean, look with Obama.

Yes, he won election twice, but look at how he hollowed out the entire Democratic Party.

Remember the talking point?

They lost 1,000 seats in state senates and governors and congressmen.

Remember that talking point?

Yeah.

I mean, that was what happened when they associated themselves with the game.

I think they're going to come roaring back now because they have.

Alec Baldwin

considering to run for president against Donald Trump.

So, you know, it's going to be quite a comeback.

They have a deep, deep bench of Alec Baldwin and Bernie Sanders.

Glenn back.

Glenn back.

It was Tuesday night in May.

Susanna Maria Feldman.

She went out with her friends.

They were a little bit rowdy, but generally a good group of kids.

But Susanna didn't come home that night.

because she had been raped, strangled, and buried in the dead of night.

Her body was dumped into a ditch leading to a railroad track near the refugee camp in her hometown of Wiesbaden.

That's in Germany.

Susanna adored her five-year-old sister, cherished her family.

She was 14.

They found her body two weeks later.

By then,

Ali Bashar, the 20-year-old man who had raped and strangled Susanna,

fled Germany, along with his parents and five siblings, all using fake names.

They went back to their home in Iraq.

Ali Bashar had previously been accused of robbery, assault on a female police officer.

He had also been suspected in the rape of an 11-year-old girl who lived in the same refugee station as he did.

He was a refugee.

Yes, did I point that out?

He arrived in the country October 2015 as part of the wave of puppy-eyed refugees that flooded Europe, who many European countries so proudly gave in and gave shelter to refugees.

Susanna was of Jewish-German heritage.

The Central Council of Jews in Germany said in a statement, a young life

has been put in a cruel way.

Our deep compassion applies to the relatives and the friends.

Susanna was a member of the Jewish community.

At present, much of the background is still unclear.

We expect the law enforcement authorities to provide rapid and comprehensive information as well as tough consequences for the perpetrators.

I tell you this story today because it's not just about Susannah.

She's not alone, not by far.

She is just one of a growing number of young women and young girls who are being sexually violated, abused, and

in

imaginable nightmares, murdered.

Then they're tossed into a ditch,

left in

trash bins.

There is no respect for life.

Europe, this is what so many people were afraid of.

This is what the so-called naysayers were afraid of.

The governments are still not responding.

The world, generally speaking, is not racist.

There are racists.

There are racist policies.

But generally speaking, I think at least in America, we are not racist.

We are observant.

Multiculturalism is the problem.

If you come to our country,

come to our country knowing what we offer and what we do.

If you want to bring your country, your traditions, and they involve killing people, raping people, seeing others as insects, infidels,

vermin, whatever it is,

you're not welcome here.

And it's about time our government all around the world

starts to recognize that there is a problem.

And the good people that really are refugees are going to suffer the consequences because of their inability and unwillingness to act.

Because the worst part of this story is

this is just the beginning.

It's Wednesday, June 13th.

This is the Glenback program.

There is an unbelievable story that just does not make any sense to me at all, other than this is what happens when a government just starts passing laws and is not

using their brain at all.

What is the point of prison?

The point of the prison is to punish people for their crimes, but rehabilitate rehabilitate them so when they come out of prison, they are good citizens, right?

Isn't that the point?

There is a case now of Matthew Charles.

It is absolutely unbelievable.

In the 90s, he was nabbed for selling crack.

He spent 21 years in prison.

He got out of prison on parole.

He has completely changed his life.

His community loves him.

He goes to church all the time.

He's got a job.

He volunteers in, I think, soup kitchens.

This guy is a model citizen.

Well, the state decided they made a mistake because

you've got to serve until 2027.

It's on the books here.

You got to serve it till 2027.

So they took a guy who had been out on parole for how many years, Stu?

Two, three?

I don't even know.

I think two years and is a model citizen.

He's going back to prison until 2027.

This has got to stop.

This is wrong.

And there's something we can do about it.

Now, he has an attorney and

Charles' attorney is on with us now, Sean Hopwood.

Hello, Sean.

How are you?

I'm great.

Thanks for having me, Glenn.

Sure.

So tell me what we don't know about Matthew.

Well, I think one of the unusual things about Matthew's case is that, one, he got an extremely long sentence for a drug crime, 35 years, which in the federal system, you have to serve 85% of that.

So best case scenario, he's got to do 30, 31 years.

And I think what's remarkable about his case is he's done 21 years in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Not only did there's no indication he had any acts of violence or committed any other crime in prison, he didn't get a single minor disciplinary report.

How rare is that, Matthew?

I have never seen it.

And to put it in context, I don't know if your listeners know my story, but I served 11 years in federal prison myself, and I'm often held up as the model of rehabilitation.

and I got two incident reports in 11 years, half of what Matthew served.

Wow.

So Matthew is quite the amazing man and then he gets out and just makes a community with his church in Nashville and volunteers.

You know the first two years out of prison after serving a long sentence is very precarious for people.

They're trying to get some stability and get their life back on track.

And Matthew, despite all of that, went and served at a soup kitchen every Saturday for the homeless.

And what's interesting is the Department of Justice had a chance.

The judge asked them, will you dismiss a charge and let this man go free rather than re-locking him up for 10 more years?

And the Department of Justice said no.

Why?

Well,

what they would say is they're just following the rule of law.

But that doesn't make any sense because federal prosecutors decide what to charge and what not to charge every day in federal court across the country.

There are many times people break federal law and prosecutors never charge it.

A lot.

A lot.

A lot.

Well, you know, the U.S.

Congress does not value your liberty or anyone else in this country because what most Americans don't know is that the Congress has found that there are 5,000 federal criminal laws, 5,000 things that are so serious that the Congress thinks that you could potentially go to jail or prison for.

So,

first of all, is Matthew, is he back in prison yet?

He is in county jail in Kentucky awaiting transfer to another prison.

But we are hopeful that the president, President Trump, will grant him clemency and return him back home to the community that desperately wants him back.

I read an article about his going away party, and he was so gracious.

And

I mean,

I wouldn't be.

I wouldn't be.

What was his attitude as he went on?

You know, if it was me, I would be very bitter and angry, but that's not Matthew's character.

Matthew kind of left the bitter, angry guy behind in prison many, many years ago.

He has been, you know, he's sad and devastated because he finally got his life back on track only to have it all ripped away from him.

But I tell you, he is also a very humble man, and he has

been just overwhelmed with the number of people who, you know, his change.org petition is close to 100,000 signatures.

We did a lot of interviews last week, including NBC Nightly News, and he's just been overwhelmed at the number of people from all political stripes who are supporting him and his quest for clemency.

By the way, that petition is posted at Glenbeck.com.

If you want to go sign it, what's the goal for this, Sean?

Well, the goal is to just get enough public support that the president decides this is worth doing.

And the White House is aware of Matthew's case.

I have yet to run into anyone who thinks that it was a smart or wise idea to send him back to prison for 10 years.

So I'm hopeful that something will happen and that the president, much like he did last week with Alice Johnson, will sign a clemency petition and Matthew can go back home to his girlfriend and his church community.

In a theoretical world, right, if we had an Elysium or the Matrix where we could test these things and you had criminals who had, you know, did bad things and you could somehow test the fact that maybe they could return and you could prove it, you could release people all the time.

The issue is, of course, that would be incredibly risky to release them into the actual population if you weren't sure.

Here's a case in which we essentially got the opportunity to test.

We were able to release this guy to see if he could blend into community, to see if his life had been turned around.

He's a success story.

It's a success story.

It was proven that he could, and yet on what seems to be a ridiculous technicality, they're throwing him back into prison.

I mean,

it's unthinkable.

There are thousands of Matthew Charles' in federal prison that just haven't had the opportunity he has to get out.

The great irony about the American criminal justice system is: one, we think that we are the land of the free, but on the other hand, America incarcerates its citizens at a greater rate than almost any other country on the planet.

And two, the great irony of it is the longer someone spends in corrections,

the less likely they generally are to come out and live law-abiding, successful lives.

Prison doesn't make people better.

Right.

And you don't.

I can't imagine going to prison for 20 years, 21 years here,

and being able to even function on the outside.

It was a different world that he lived in in the 1990s.

Completely different worlds.

Yeah, when I was released in 2008, I had never been on the internet, never seen an iPad, an iPhone, or an iPod.

One of the things I quickly realized when I went to pick up the paper and look at the classified ad section for jobs was no one advertises jobs in the classified section.

And Matthew had to overcome all those hurdles too.

Just the stress of so much change when you've been incarcerated that long.

And yet he was able to overcome all of that and show that he's a changed person, which just,

you know, in a perfect world, the Department of Justice would have recognized his rehabilitation and just cut him loose.

Sean, do you have time to stay with us for a little bit longer?

I do.

Okay, if you stay on with us, because I've got a few.

This is a fascinating story and should be more than fascinating to people.

We need to take action on this.

You can go to Glennbeck.com and sign the petition

and get the president's attention.

And we've got to correct this.

There's something good happening in America right now, and that is we're starting to come together on one thing, and that is prison reform.

It doesn't work.

Let's talk about prison reform.

How do we do this?

And how do we get the people out of prison that shouldn't be there anymore?

Sean Hopwood, he is the attorney for Matthew Charles.

He's also an associate professor of Georgetown Law.

We can continue our conversation here in just a second.

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Sean Hopwood, he is the lawyer representing Matthew Charles, an incredible story.

He's an associate professor of Georgetown Law.

Sean, we have about three and a half minutes.

Can you just, can you tell me your story a little bit?

Yeah, so my story kind of is not too dissimilar from Matthew Charles.

In 1997 and 1998, as a 21-22-year-old, I robbed five banks and was

12 years and three months in federal prison.

and got to prison and learned the law and had two briefs that I prepared for other guys and friends of mine in prison that were granted by the United States Supreme Court.

And then I started winning cases in federal court all over, even though I had never been to law school and hadn't even taken freshman English and then didn't have an undergraduate degree either.

That is unbelievable.

This is just like Suits.

It's my favorite show.

This is exactly what happened in Suits.

Oh my gosh, I can't believe that's happened.

So you get a Gates Foundation scholarship when you leave and you go to the University of Washington and now you're a professor at George Washington Law?

I got out in 2009.

I finished my bachelor's degree.

I went to the University of Washington up in Seattle School of Law.

My first job out of law school was clerking for Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a very conservative judge on the Court of Appeals for the D.C.

Circuit.

And then I came to Georgetown as a teaching fellow for two years and I went on the market to be a law professor and and Georgetown kept me.

Unbelievable.

I have just the most amazing job where I get to help people every day.

So, Sean,

the odds that if the president doesn't act, that Matthew's going to get out of prison?

Well, he'll get out, but he'll have to do nine or ten years.

But I'm trying not to think about that because I really think the president who, you know, I was in the White House about a month ago when the president talked about the need to reform our prisons and that it doesn't serve anyone well for people to go to prison and come out worse off

rather than better.

Correct.

And he talked about the need for America to be the land of second chances and even third chances.

And, you know, knowing he said that and believes that, and knowing that the White House is also working on a prison reform bill, I've been working with them for months on that.

I think there's a good likelihood that the president will see the injustice for Matthew.

That is fantastic news.

We will continue to follow this case.

Thank you so much for the work that you're doing.

Tell Matthew to keep his chin up.

There are people from all walks of life

that are behind him.

We urge you to go to Glenbeck.com.

It's posted right there on the front page where you can go.

You'll click.

It'll take you right to the petition.

You can sign the petition there

and help Matthew Charles.

Let's write this wrong.

Seemingly, there's no support.

Thanks for talking about Matthew's case, and I'm just hopeful that he's going to get to go home.

Me too.

Thanks, Sean.

Thanks, Sean.

Appreciate it.

God bless.

Glenbeck.com is where you can find the petition.

There's really been support across the aisle.

Both sides agree that this is a miscarriage of justice.

This is something we can unite on.

And I think Trump will do this eventually.

I do too.

We just need to get it in front of him.

Yes.

So please go sign the petition.

It's that White House petition.

You can do it now at Glenbeck.com.

Tell a friend.

So

President Trump has deemed

the

meeting with Kim Jong-un a wild success and said that we don't have to worry.

He's no longer going to be a threat to the world on.

nukes.

It might be a little early

to claim victory.

We did sign a piece of paper, which is great.

And again, this piece of paper is actually less restrictive on North Korea than previous pieces of paper that have been signed.

Though, you know, again, this is very consistent with the way Trump deals with these things.

I think he, you know, when you're doing something with him, he praises you and if praises you

effusively.

And he goes the other way when you're doing something he doesn't like, which is why he sounds so much more negative about Canada and the media than he does a guy who's got a bunch of concentration camps and murdering his own people.

He like right now, he's going, he believes he's going the right way with Kim Jong-un.

So he's praising.

And if Kim Jong-un screws this up, changes, decides to not denuclearize, he will change and start killing him again in the media.

And I mean, that's just the way, it's the way he does it.

You know, it's not my,

you know, it's not the style that I enjoy.

But again, you you know,

I don't know if anyone's noticed, no one elected me.

They elected him.

Yeah.

And this is his style.

And we should be rooting for the best.

Absolutely.

And I think part of this, too, is he does this a lot in negotiations in which he

tries to lock you into your position.

So he goes out there and he praises something he didn't really do.

Right.

Like their say, well, we'll denuclearize the

peninsula.

It's based on tons of other conditions, right?

Like it's not like, oh, we're just, we're going to, everything's going to be gone tomorrow.

But he goes out publicly and says, wow, everything's going to be gone tomorrow.

Or actually, in this case, he said, everything's already gone, right?

He's trying to lock him publicly into this position.

So when Kim Jong-un comes back and says, well, yeah, I'm not doing half of the things you said I was doing.

Trump can go, wait a minute, I stuck my neck out for you.

I was out there saying that you were a good guy.

I was out there saying that you were funny and loved your people.

And now you're doing this to me.

Yeah, it could be.

You know, I think there is a bit of that that he does, and he's done that forever, right?

He's always tried to lock people into those positions publicly, and then he acts as if you've reversed it on him when

people try to enforce the original agreement.

Look, I mean, it's worked for him in the past, and maybe I don't know if Kim Jong-un feels those same media pressures considering his situation, but maybe he does.

Again, he's a very bizarre character,

Un.

And if you, well, Kim.

And if you go through Kim Jong-un and you're saying, all right, well,

you know, maybe we try some unconventional stuff and maybe it moves it.

You know, I mean, it's again, I think everyone, whether you like Trump or not, is saying it's worth a shot, right?

Why not give it a shot?

We just got to make sure that we don't fold and give him everything just so we can say we have a win.

I think that's what everyone's concerned about.

I just think we should give it a shot.

Let's wait for this to play out before you trash it or not.

It's in play.

Let it play out.

You pointed this out last night on the television show,

and you went through step by step how Reagan worked on the Gorbachev thing with Iceland.

And several of the steps you noted were: wait.

Yes.

Let them simmer in it.

Let them sit there and think about it a little bit.

I mean,

the way Reagan did it is similar.

First, you start out with the Evil Empire speech.

You start out saying they're really bad and we got to do something about it.

And you do it in such a way that everybody in the world says, you can't say that about them.

That's going to only make things worse.

Evil Empire speech, Rocketman.

Hey, go ahead.

We'll vaporize you.

I mean, think of all the things that Donald Trump said

with North Korea.

Then,

after you say that, you set up a coalition and you penalize them.

You try to choke off their money, which we have done.

But what Reagan did is he went to the Pope and he went to

Margaret Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher was putting external pressure on, but the Pope was putting internal pressure on.

He had connections inside.

What did Donald Trump do?

Donald Trump went to China.

China has called him in because China is the pressure on the inside.

Now, we don't know how much pressure.

We don't know what's going on, but China played a big role in this.

Remember, they called him out.

He doesn't leave the country.

They called him out and said,

you have to come meet with us in China.

So he took his cute little train in his toilet and he went to China for a meeting.

What happened there?

I don't know.

But I would imagine it was pressure.

So he's got the pressure from the outside and pressure from the inside, exactly the way Gorbachev did.

Then you wait for a meeting, but you put something on the table in that meeting that you're refusing to walk away from.

Something that is really, really tempting.

So Gorbachev...

What was put on the table, Gorbachev wanted to put on the table was Star Wars.

Well, Star Wars was a lie.

We didn't have Star Wars.

So what was it that we put on the table with Kim Jong-un?

I'm convinced it's that film.

I'm convinced that he went to Little Rocket Man and said, look, you love the Western culture.

Why are you avoiding this?

You be our friends.

Look, you're going to have a great life.

You're going to hang out with the movie stars.

That's why he made that thing feel like a movie.

You're going to hang out with movie stars and basketball players.

You're going to be part of the global community.

You're going to be part of the West.

That's what Kim Jong-un

wants, is that.

So Donald Trump put that on the table.

Now, to me, it's a lie because

there's no way he's going to be able to stop.

Once that that country begins to collapse they're not going to stop it and and who's going to prop him up nobody nobody's going to prop him up so the minute he takes that bait and goes into perestroika or glasnos which was the opening of the iron curtain then it's too late

so

Donald Trump has just offered him the world of literally the world.

You're going to be a superstar.

You're going to be remembered as one of the greatest leaders of all time.

You're going to open up and you're going to, let's put some hotels on your beaches.

It's going to be great.

He does that.

I think the little man wants it.

Now

you wait.

If you start to see that Kim Jong-un starts to kill people around him, high-level hardliners, you're going to know that it's working.

Because the next thing that happens is the hardliners are going to say to him, you can't do this.

What are you crazy?

You can't do this.

And Kim Jong-un wants it.

He wants it badly.

He believes Trump can do it.

So

we wait.

And we see if he starts to make a move towards more openness, if the hardliners start to be killed off,

then there will be another meeting.

And that's when Donald Trump can close the noose, just like Ronald Reagan did with Gorbachev.

Now, this is my optimistic hope,

but remember, that took eight years to pull off.

We're day two.

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All right.

There's a uh there's a couple of things that you need to know.

Um

first there is a uh there is uh an update that is not going to go over well in the White House today on Michael Cohen.

Stu

yeah, well, it's uh this is just breaking, so we're just reading up on a now.

It's an odd, uh, it's an odd story.

Um, so Cohen is dealing with 3.7 million documents that were seized, uh, and they're going through the process now of trying to figure out exactly what's going on with them, which ones are privileged and which ones aren't.

Um, so far, only a few have been privileged.

162 out of 300,000 of the first batch.

So 162,

not 162,000 out of 300,000, but 162 of 300,000 documents have been privileged and will not be reduced.

But again, a lot of that's probably also nonsense.

Anyway, the big development that's apparently happening, according to ABC News,

that

Cohen's lawyers are leaving.

Do we have any idea why?

There doesn't seem to be an indication in this particular story about that.

You know, speculation about

that he's now.

What they're saying is they believe this means he's cooperating with the New York

Attorney General or district attorney.

So

the development, this is how it reads in the ABC report: No replacing counsel has been identified as of this time.

Cohen, now with no legal representation, is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York.

Sources said this development, which is believed to be imminent, will likely hit the White House, family members, and staffers and counsels hard.

And they believe as this is going through, I mean, you know, who knows?

This does not mean that Trump did anything wrong by any means.

It could very well mean that he has documents on Manafort and who else has already been indicted.

And we don't know what the deal is.

But him cooperating is certainly not something

that the White House will be excited about hearing.

Depending on what he has, I mean,

if they already are throwing Manafort to the Wolves,

and rightly so, in my opinion,

what difference does it make if he

turns evidence on Manafort, as long as it doesn't implicate the president or anybody else knew?

Right.

Of course, though, I mean, it's just going to be so difficult, even if it's not criminally damaging, you know, these documents being out there are, God only knows what Michael Cohen was doing.

I mean, Cohen, as, you know, is,

you know, he's a movie-style bad guy attorney.

Yeah, do we ever, we never even played the audio of him, did we?

When he was calling up and yelling at the reporter the first time, no, we just a couple of weeks ago.

You know, he's just, you know, he's not a good guy.

And look, Trump knows how rough and tumble he is, and because of that, never brought him into the White House.

Cohen was never even, never in the White House.

So that's, he was, he was able to bring in people who, like Bannon, who were loudmouths, and, you know, other people who, like, you know, you know, Flynn, who had his issues, although doesn't seem to, you know, to be nearly the bad guy that Michael Cohen is.

I mean, Cohen has had all sorts of problems for a long, long time.

And, you know, his job, which was valuable at times in the real estate business, is not something you want anywhere near the White House.

And Trump knew that from day one.

But what this guy actually has in his archives, what he's done, I mean, you know.

what he's done on behalf of the president, whether the president knew about it or not, could be an issue.

I mean, you know, Trump has said a hundred times he had no business in Russia and all of that.

At that time, we now, at least has been reported widely, that Cohen was on his own trying to get Trump Tower Moscow built

separately from Trump.

No one has said that he, that Trump told him to do this, but he had some freedom to go out there and try to create deals and was dealing with very odd sources in Russia about trying to get in 2016 during the campaign to try to get Trump Trump Tower Moscow built.

And here is here is the kind of guy he is.

Here's Michael Cohen

talking to a reporter saying, back off.

I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we're in the courthouse, and I will take you for every penny you still don't have.

And I will come after you, Daily Beast, and everybody else that you possibly know.

Do not even think about going to where I know you're planning on going.

And that's my warning for today.

So I'm warning you, trans

likely, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be disgusting.

Do you understand me?

Don't think you're going to hide behind your pen because it's not going to happen.

I'm more than happy to discuss it with your attorney and with your legal counsel, because mother, you're going to need it.

So I, you know,

it's a kind of a

if you are in the situation where you are dealing with the press and the press is as unfair as they are to

Donald Trump or many people,

there'd be a good portion of you that want that guy on your side to do that kind of thing.

I don't appreciate it or like it, but that's the kind of thing that has come out, you know, before.

And that's not the kind of thing that the FBI is looking at, but you can see he plays real hardball.

So what has he done?

If anything, we'll follow this and bring you up to speed as more comes along.

Glenn back.

All right.

One more reason we actually might be stuck in, you know, some virtual reality version of Alice in Wonderland where everything is upside down.

I'm not sure.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal

gave what is seemingly a more rational explanation of the supposed gender wage gap than any of the feminist or Marxist or tenured gender studies,

you know, those who are the professors now of gender studies that have, you know, rallied around these crazy explanations for decades now.

Raphael Nadal, currently ranked number one in men's singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals, with a, you know, a buttload of career titles.

He apparently is,

I don't know, the professional tennis embodiment of Jordan Peterson now?

I'm not really sure.

He was in an interview and he was asked, in tennis, should women earn as much as men?

Okay.

How are you going to answer that?

How is the average person who just wants to stay out of the sight of

the spotlight?

Oh, absolutely.

I mean, it's just, wow, of course they should.

You know, they're equal in every way, and we should all support women in their fight for equality.

So here's what he said.

It isn't a comparison that we should even make.

Female models earn more than male models, and nobody says anything.

I love us.

Why?

Because they have a larger following.

In tennis two,

who gathers a larger audience earns more?

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Is he saying that A, the wage gap actually affects women and men, but just in different ways?

And two, any disparity can't be conveniently attributed to systematic misogyny?

That's crazy talk.

The wage gap might be a fiction of the fourth wave critical theory-based feminism?

Shut up, shut up.

Did he issue a trigger warning?

Oh my gosh, did I?

Let's go back in time.

This next story, I just want to warn you,

there may be a trigger.

Trying to ask people to be personally responsible for their wages and understand each and every

business.

And how business is different.

Is he seriously saying that equality of outcome is bad

in today's world?

That's crazy.

That's too much common sense there.

He's a bad person.

He's a Nazi.

Don't say he's a bad person.

He's a Nazi.

You know, everybody, quick,

get outraged.

Take to Twitter right now.

Just get to, we have got to expose this evil, disgusting, incredibly logical Nazi.

It's Wednesday, June 13th.

This is the Glenbeck program.

You know, the one thing that I've learned in putting this museum together, which

is opening this weekend, it only runs Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

I think tomorrow night we're having a big dinner.

Friday night, you can come and have a dinner.

It's a fundraiser for Operation Underground Railroad and the Nazarene Fund.

Tickets are a bit pricey.

It's going to be a small gathering, and we would love for you to attend.

I've got a few surprises

for the people who attend.

But then the general mission tickets for the museum are happening all weekend long.

I'm going to be here all weekend.

Everybody on the shows are going to be here all weekend long.

And we would love to see you and meet you and thank you for listening to us and watching us and supporting us.

The Rights and Responsibilities exhibit is all about correcting history.

What is it?

What is it about

what is it about

the

academia

that makes it so easy for them to change history?

Well, what makes it really easy?

Us.

Our ignorance of history.

We have some documents and some items that are on display this weekend that will

really,

truly blow your mind.

This one, I just can't believe, every time I open this up, I just can't believe I'm holding it in my hand.

This is a document from Thomas Paine.

Now, most people don't know Thomas Paine.

And if you know Thomas Paine and say, oh, he was a great patriot,

you then don't know the other half of his life.

If you look at him and say, oh, yeah, he's the founder who's the atheist, you don't know him at all.

And this document proves it.

It's a letter between him and Benjamin Franklin.

and I think John Adams.

And he's responding to them.

And I'll get to it in a second.

If you don't know who Thomas Paine is, he is the guy,

he was born in England, and his dad was a Quaker who made rope for ships.

And once he was old enough, he took up his father's, his trade, and then he worked as a tax collector.

Well, he wasn't good at

being a tax collector or making ropes.

His wife and his baby,

in 1760, died during childbirth.

And so he just had this, I mean, he just really had a rough upbringing and early life.

He remarried, then he got divorced, and he was at a low point when he met Benjamin Franklin in London,

who said, you need to make a new life for yourself in America.

In America, just leave this crap behind.

So he's 37 years old.

It's 1774.

And he comes to work for Benjamin Franklin as an editor at his Pennsylvania Gazette magazine.

So he's starting to write as he comes over and he starts learning about America.

And he writes African Slavery in America.

And it was a total takedown of slavery.

He gets swept up in the revolutionary spirit.

And when the war breaks out,

He writes a couple of things.

First, he's the guy who wrote Common Sense, which galvanized the nation and really got everybody to say, Congress,

we want to break away.

We want to break away.

It was Thomas Paine and common sense that gave birth to the Declaration of Independence.

Then,

about a year later, it's around Christmastime, 1776, George Washington is losing horribly.

We haven't won a single battle.

Everybody's starting to say the revolution is over.

He is losing guys left and right.

They don't have faith in him.

And they're headed down south.

They're headed

past Philadelphia because Philadelphia, all of the members of Congress have already fled because the British are coming.

And they're just going to kill all of the revolutionaries.

George Washington knows he has got to turn this around.

And so

he is

camped on the southern side of the Delaware, and he is praying, what am I going to do?

How do I rally people around?

At that time,

somewhere else is Thomas Paine, and he's marching with troops.

He doesn't know where Washington is, but he starts to think as he's marching, you know, these are the times that try men's souls.

Well, that is the beginning of

the American Crisis.

He asked for the head of a drum, the guy who is marching next because he didn't have any paper, and he writes the American crisis down.

And he said, I want you to first get this to to George Washington, then get it to a printer.

George Washington does not know what to say to his troops

until the head of the drum arrives.

He gathers everyone and says,

I just want you to listen to these words.

These are the times that try men's souls.

It's the winter soldier, not the summer patriot.

You are winter soldiers, and I need you to get into boats, and I need you to go back the other direction.

We're going to take on the Hessians.

These are the Navy SEALs of our day.

It's because of Thomas Paine.

War ends.

By the way, Thomas Paine hasn't made any money because he's taken all of the profits and he's given all of the profits to the war effort.

So this guy's a massive hero.

The French Revolution breaks out.

He believes that the French Revolution is the American Revolution.

George Washington and everybody else, except for Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, understand: no, this is not life, liberty, and property.

This is

liberty, equality, and fraternity.

And that's different.

They don't have God.

Thomas Paine gets really, really angry.

He leaves.

He calls George Washington all kinds of names.

Washington says, I'm not going to bail you out if you get in trouble over there.

He goes over, he writes The Rights of Man, which is defending the French Revolution.

It's a big success.

And then the next one he writes, and that's the Age of Reason.

This is the one that had

Teddy Roosevelt say,

oh, Thomas Paine,

oh, he's that filthy little atheist.

Well, he's not a filthy little atheist.

But history records him as a filthy little atheist.

Because of what he wrote,

when he came back to America after the French Revolution, everybody abandoned him and hated him.

Within ten years, he died broke and alone.

There were only six people that attended his funeral

six

what did he say that was so bad

and what was his defense

you will be taught that he is an atheist in my hand right now are the pages written

explaining exactly what he meant and why he wrote it which completely changes history

I'll tell you about it coming up next.

Don't forget, you can see this document, read it yourself, along with the first draft of the

Declaration of Independence, which is mind-blowing.

and the original handwritten Gettysburg address from Abraham Lincoln.

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Just reading these documents, they're just

phenomenal.

They're truly phenomenal.

And change history.

Change your understanding of it.

If you learn that Thomas Paine was an atheist, you will see in his letter from, I thought it was John Adams, but it's to Samuel Adams, dated 1803.

Paine is responding to Benjamin Franklin and

Adams' criticism of the Age of Reason.

And they say, Why would you even write this?

Why would you even write it?

And he says, Now remember, he is in France during the Revolution with the guillotines.

The people of France were running headlong into atheism.

I had the work Age of Reason translated into French to stop them in that career.

Wait, what?

Why would an atheist write something, have it translated into French to stop them from becoming atheists?

He said they needed to fix themselves to the first article, which he talks about earlier,

the first thing before of every man's creed, and that is, I believe in God.

Why, my dear friend, is my religion exactly and this whole of it

a question?

It makes me believe that you have no idea of what I wrote in the age of reason.

Most people haven't read it.

I extol a

reverential love for the deity.

Let me give you a paragraph from it, he says.

Do you want to contemplate his power?

We see it in the immensity of creation.

Do we want to contemplate his wisdom?

We see it in the unchangeable order.

Do we want to see the abundance of which he fills the earth?

We want to contemplate his mercy.

We see it in his not withholding the abundance from everything, even from the unthankful.

So he goes on to talk about that

he has a problem with religion, and that's what the people of France were going through.

Problem with religion and priests.

And he even says,

you know, how these priests

will stand up for the shedding of blood and they get involved in things that they shouldn't get involved in

and all of the war and the whoop from the pulpit has concealed the object.

Religion is not the cause, but it is the stalking horse that put it forward to conceal themselves.

So in other words, there's a lot of these people who are total frauds.

And they're using religion to manipulate.

to become rich or to become powerful or whatever it is.

So he is anti-religion, not anti-God.

He is also, he's not a Christian,

but he knows the parameters of God.

And if you read this letter, he clearly believes in God.

It's truly a remarkable letter that you'll be able to read.

It's going to be all out page by page.

You'll be able to read.

You'll be able to read it yourself.

It's really incredible.

And at the end.

The end is the most amazing part to me because sure, we've been told one thing about history, and it's completely wrong.

I mean, yes, he had a lot of these feelings, but I mean, this proves really, you know, that he was, he did believe in higher authority.

When he's saying, how do we contemplate his brilliance?

Who's he?

Right?

Like, he's talking about somebody there.

Or he goes on to talk about specifically about God.

Right.

I mean, and it's so that that's proved in this letter.

Yes.

However, it ends with him, and pardon my French, if I may, in this particular case, he ends it with an ass joke.

Well, I mean, that's not French.

Well, he was talking about the French Revolution when he was discussing it.

That's why I said, pardon my French.

Right.

And it's not, it's not even a good joke, but it might have been, you know.

No, but he legit in giant block letters that you can see

just makes a joke.

Yeah.

So he does this whole thing, and it's very, very serious.

And then on the last page, he writes, What word is it that all men loves, and by taking away the first letter, most men love,

and by taking away the first two letters, it shows the character of the man

that loves neither?

So, what is that word?

What?

It's glass.

Uh-huh.

All men apparently love glass.

This must have been because the windows were just coming in or something.

I don't know why.

All men love.

They're all big glass guys.

Then you take away the first letter, and most men love last.

And then you take his.

I don't know what he means by that.

Well, women,

but I mean, he's saying most men love.

So

he is an advocate for same-sex marriage.

And then

you take away the first two, and it shows the character of those who love neither

women or

glass glass for some reason.

It's a terrible joke.

It's a terrible joke.

It may have been really funny back then.

I don't know, but it's not real funny now.

But it's crazy.

He's writing this to Samuel Adams.

Samuel Adams is the

Billy Graham of the era.

Yeah, yeah.

He is

the big preacher

in Congress and

part of the founding group.

Now known as the beer guy, but not necessarily not necessarily then at the time no maybe that's what he was saying a glass of ale ah glass of some of your beer there sam

so let me give you a fact that i want you to really remember and spread this far and wide

new uh new uh figures have have come out you know we are the worst as a nation.

We're horrible at everything, right?

Well, according to the Giving USA Foundation's annual report on philanthropy.

I love this story.

We have just set a record high for charitable giving in the last 12 months.

Yeah, what do we give?

Like $40?

Stingy bastards we have in the country.

Well, we

have $30.

By the way, this does not include any government giving at all.

Could I, may I?

No, I'm just trying to help.

I'm just

really helping.

I'm a help.

You're not helping.

So here's.

What do I do?

I help.

So

America gave $410 billion

last year.

$410 billion.

It has never been that high.

In fact, we eclipse the world in total dollars given from our own wallet.

And the vast majority, $287

billion, was given by people and not corporations or foundations, but by average people.

Vast majority.

If you happen to be traveling internationally and someone says, well, you know, your country stings on ice, you'd say, well, you know, without the ice, you stink.

But that's a different story.

How much money do you, France,

give

as a country?

Because we're not just charitable in the U.S.

We also provide the most foreign aid by far, and no one comes close to us.

So the United States Department requested $51 billion last year to give to foreign aid.

Now, Americans gave over $400 billion, but the government gave, took money from us and gave an additional $51 billion.

Just for some perspective, that's 30 billion more than Germany.

That is 30 million more than the UK.

40 billion more than France.

And 45 billion more than Canada.

No country in the history of the world has ever been this charitable.

That is truly American exceptionalism.

And that comes from our Judeo-Christian upbringing.

I got to say it.

I'm going to say it.

I'm going to say it.

Don't.

You're a bad person.

Don't.

Not only that, but the private giving,

as a percentage of GDP, because everybody else will say, well, you got 300 million people.

Of course, you gave more.

As a percentage of GDP, we gave double the second-place country.

Doubled the second-place country.

And I mean, it's triple or quadruple places like Germany and, you know, crappy France.

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Is that the new name?

Yeah, it's called Crappy France.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.

They officially, because they thought, well, yeah.

I mean, it's, why deny reality?

My country's crappy France.

It works.

It works.

Okay, that's good.

That is amazing.

And that's what a cultural thing, right?

It's because of our upbringing upbringing of a couple of things.

One, Benjamin Franklin, what is the American religion?

It's not Catholic, Protestant, or anything else.

The American religion is there is a God.

We should serve him.

And the best way to serve him is to serve our fellow man.

That's what, that's the stock of this nation.

So we've always done that.

Plus, we have always looked.

to ourselves to fix problems.

We don't stand around like everybody else does.

Why doesn't the country do anything about this?

We do it.

We do it.

And the bigger our government becomes, the more socialized our government becomes, the less we will do for ourselves.

That's what's happening.

And

the world will weep

when the lights go out on America.

They will weep.

They will have no idea the good that we have done.

There's so many new developments as well that are really positive here in the United States.

I think we're going in the right direction.

Thank you for pointing that out, Stu, because the University of California at Santa Barbara, UCSB,

hosts a website that's controlled by the sociology department.

It encourages parents, finally, somebody's saying.

Finally.

It encourages parents to allow their young children to participate in sexual play.

Wait, you mean

perfectly healthy?

Hold it.

You mean you're college students?

No, no.

No, this is

they actually say

that

sexual play is most common between the ages of four

and seven.

And it's, quote, completely normal, generally harmless, and encourages,

they're encouraging parents to allow these behaviors.

So try to be positive when you see this happen.

If your seven-year-old is playing with a four-year-old, is that, I mean, that's perfect.

Perfectly normal.

What do they mean?

What do they mean generally harmless?

Yeah, you know what?

They don't accept that with guns, do they?

No, they do not.

Over 300 million guns.

How many are used in crime?

They are generally harmless.

Harmless.

There's a section on the website that reads: children might display affection to their friends by hugging and kissing or touching each other's genitals, which is perfectly normal.

Parents should not react in a negative way because children are just exploring.

So you should encourage this kind of behavior.

If a child is performing these activities excessively in public, why you might sit them down, have a talk with them about how this should be done in private.

So if it's happening like at a Taco Bell booth, you want to maybe put a stop to it.

Yes.

Don't try to thwart the activity, of course, altogether.

You don't want that.

Wait, wait, wait.

We still don't have to do it behind closed doors.

Weren't these the same people

that were telling us that we had to tell our kids which parts of their body was private and which part was a no-touches?

So that nobody will touch?

No touch zones?

Yeah.

When was it when we started predicting that they would have to make this?

They would have to normalize.

Things like pedophilia.

And for the last several years, we've seen this.

Now they're talking about sex among kids themselves, like a four- and a seven-year-old inappropriately touching is perfectly normal and generally harmless.

But how far away are we from telling us all that it's fine if adults engage in this activity?

You have to.

You have to.

If you're being consistent,

you have to.

There's absolutely nothing anymore.

Really, that's verboten.

There's nothing that you should say to your kids.

I think that words.

Don't do that.

That word makes me think of the white Germany.

Does it make you uncomfortable?

Yeah, we're looking for the masterpiece.

Were you uncomfortable there?

Absolutely.

It was somewhat uncomfortable.

The trigger word is also a trigger word because it has the word trigger in it.

Oh, my gosh.

Now

we have made me uncomfortable.

I'm sorry.

I wish you wouldn't have

brought up that image in my head.

I'm sorry.

Wow, you still?

I need people as well.

I'm hoping for a soundproof glass case that I can get into.

I can just stay in all the time.

You know, the University of Utah has a cry closet.

We should install one of those.

I'm sorry, what?

It is a cry closet where you go and cry

and get all emotional about your finals exams.

They've set them up all over campus.

It has pillows.

It has pillows.

It does.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, I mean,

a cry closet.

Uh-huh.

Well, if you're going to, and that's, by the way, we want to make sure that people understand it's okay to cry at school

to test.

Yeah.

But we just want a safe place for you to cry.

And you might be crying because your parents told you not to touch other kids' genitals when you were a child, and you're you're still harmed by that because they may have reacted negatively they may have and they shouldn't have they should not have done that

they have a cry closet

yeah they do is there is there any chance that anybody's ever going to grow up anymore is there any chance can you imagine a cry

a cry closet I know I used to look up when I was a kid we would look up to college students as like they were grown-ups they were the cool grown-ups

imagined they're pansies now.

Yeah, you're like, yeah, I was,

you know, I went and I, oh, I, somebody, somebody used some trigger language and I had to go into the cry closet and cry all day.

You'd be like,

what?

You're eight.

Okay.

I don't want you touching me anymore.

You are weird.

Isn't it, though, because I used to have this view that,

you know, we would talk about this before, like, oh, well, it's great.

You know, you can have your participation trophies in your cry closets, and my kids will be the ones you're serving at

your job where you can't do anything because you have completely unprepared for the world.

And I've converted this belief because I now believe that these people who are building the cry closets and crying inside the cry closets, it will become so universal that cry closets will just be the thing.

That was what society will be.

It's like we've talked about like with you know global warming before.

You can come out and you can say, well, global, you know, forget that a global warming is real or not.

Talk about the idea that

they're encouraging you to do things that absolutely, with all certainty, even if you believe every piece of nonsense that Al Gore has ever said, will not solve the problem.

You know, doing things like, well, you know, you need to unplug your

appliances and when you need to, you know, all these little steps that will make a a quote-unquote difference when they know, you know, it's just about selling the idea, right?

It's not about actually making a difference.

You can't scientifically make a difference with any of those

causes.

So I used to think, well, eventually, like people will realize that the circle want to be clean, but this is stupid.

And the reality of the situation, the reality of fossil fuels being incredibly useful to build, I don't know, a civilization on.

At some point, people just get older and realize this.

They're so on it when they're dopey kids and they eventually realize it later on in life.

I no longer believe that's accurate at all.

I now believe that those nonsensical ideas that are fed to teenagers just become the truth later on.

Not that they're actually true, but that they're just, it's so widely believed and never challenged that they just adopt that as the entire civilization's policy.

So you so we're screwed is what I was saying.

You are right because I've always still pulling back from this.

No, no, no.

What he's saying about how that just becomes the norm.

Oh, yeah.

I've always believed in self-evident truth.

I don't believe that anymore.

I don't believe there is.

Things aren't self-evident.

They are not self-evident to people.

Your freedom is not self-evident.

That is something that had to be carefully taught and studied and reasoned.

And then when that society had enough reason in it, it started going, wait a minute, I shouldn't have somebody else telling me what to do.

Yeah.

That's when it becomes self-evident.

So it is quickly becoming self-evident that the dinosaurs that believe in cry rooms being funny or cry rooms being tragically sad because it makes you into a four-year-old that will never be prepared for life, that is going to be self-evident that we are wrong and the cry room room is right.

Yeah.

And I mean, the first step was to kill common sense and reason.

And they've successfully done that.

Are we not seeing this exact process happen with gender right now?

Yes.

Right?

Like, gender, like, again, like, there was an idea, there's never, it's never been about hating someone or anything like that.

It's just like, it's always been, there's been two genders and that's the way it was.

Well, X and Y.

And there was a, right, chromosomes, right?

Like, and you'd think that eventually the chromosome thing works, it plays out and people understand that that's what it is, despite the crazy things that people would say.

And what happens now is it just keeps moving down that road.

And for a while, I mean, if you go back 20 years, you'll see comedians like crazy making fun of concepts like this.

They would mock them, the idea that there were 100 genders.

You don't know.

Now it's only crazy conservatives who say 95 genders is not correct.

And in 10 years.

I believe there are, hear me carefully, I think there's 250 genders.

I'm not part of these guys.

They're haters.

And in 10 years, people will be like, do you know at one point they believed there were only 250 genders?

No.

It's true.

This will happen.

It's true.

It's amazing.

Can you believe they actually believed in genders at one point?

Yeah.

Do you see the fashion show that happened in London or Paris this weekend?

I did not.

With the guys who were wearing prosthetic bellies

because we live in a world now where men can have children.

Thank you.

Finally.

And I mean...

I've appeared pregnant for for years, and I believe in that completely.

I don't have to wear prosthetics.

I just cannot seem to give birth to this thing.

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The California

six Californias or three-state solution for California, breaking it up into three states, actually got onto the ballots yesterday.

And it should prove interesting to see exactly what happens.

Also, some news from Venezuela.

They are talking now about dollarizing and getting rid of their currency.

Well, that's the opposition plan.

The Maduro plan is just taking three zeros off the end of the money.

So 250,000 would just be 250,000.

Oh, that's a lot easier.

And zeros aren't worth anything.

I mean, they're nothing.

They're zero.

So that's a better plan.

That's much easier.

Yeah.

Just move a decimal point even over a few slides.

Right.

That's all.

Make it 25 cents.

Then everybody's rich.

Glenn, back.

Mercury.