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Glenn Beck Americans are dreamers too.

This was one of the best speeches I have heard a president give in a long, long time.

Americans are dreamers too.

One of the great lines and great moments from last night's State of the Union speech.

I believe this is the best and most powerful night of President Trump's political career.

Last night, he's the president that people have been waiting for.

And it was a bipartisan speech.

It's not every day that a political event can move you to tears.

And I absolutely hate.

And you know what?

We have little Sally McAfutt sitting up there and she did this.

Yay.

Last night

had powerful moment after powerful moment after powerful moment.

Three times last night, rather than going to hellfire and brimstone, you know, and following the path of Steve Bannon,

the president breathed humanity into our political issues through three powerful stories.

A family that had lost two daughters to the MS-13 gang violence, they stood while the president was telling their story, and you could feel their pain.

The parents of Otto Warmbier,

the guy that was taken in North Korea and brutally, brutally beaten.

Those parents stood sobbing while the entire building building erupted in applause.

And a North Korean defector stood and triumphantly raised his crutches as the emotion swelled.

Last night was powerful.

Maybe the most effective thing to happen for Republicans,

and it didn't have anything to do with what the president said,

was what the Democrats did.

The Democrats,

this was not just a good night for the President, and I believe a good night for the country.

This was a really bad night for the Democrats.

Did they not know that the entire country was watching them as they sat and refused to applaud even the entrance of Melania Trump and applaud the things that 99% of the country can rally behind?

Nancy Pelosi, I don't know if she swallowed a tooth or what was going on, but my

gosh, she wasn't happy.

The scowl was so intense.

I was afraid she was going to sprain her face.

I really did.

Wow.

They frowned.

They sat on their hands for things that I just don't understand.

How do you not stand for bonuses and rising wages for the first time for the middle and lower class?

Bonuses for employees.

They sat and scowled as everyone else stood for In God We Trust, the national anthem, Jerusalem, higher wages.

They sat.

It was unbelievable.

The Congressional Black Caucus remained seated when it was announced that the African-American

unemployment number is at its lowest in history.

And these people

sat

and did nothing.

It seems like a big deal.

Seems like something you'd be happy about.

Many American Democrats care deeply about immigration issues.

Trump did something that no Republican or no conservative could ever survive.

He locked himself into the death chamber, strapped himself to a conservative electric chair, and turned on the juice.

He offered amnesty for 1.8 million illegal aliens.

He stated in the speech that triples what Obama was offering.

So what happened?

The Democrats sat on their hands.

This wasn't a big win.

This wasn't a big outreach.

Nancy Pelosi, I was now afraid it wasn't going to be a spraining.

She was going to break her face.

At one point, Luis

Gutierrez

stood up and stormed out of the room.

I think it's because people were chanting USA, USA, and that offended him.

A congressman is offended by USA, USA.

I don't know if they had to have special classes for

the Democrats,

some sort of a

hold-me tank because the flag was behind the president the whole time.

They seem to not really,

you know,

they need to be coddled a little bit.

Here's the truth.

The Democrats aren't happy with Trump's amnesty because they're not the ones delivering it.

They don't care about these people.

They care about the votes.

They care about the divisiveness of the issue.

And I'm not just making this about Democrats.

There's many Republicans that do exactly the same thing.

They need this to be a political football.

They're concerned mainly about protecting their political racket.

Both sides do this, but last night I saw it, I couldn't believe it.

If there was ever an opportunity to at least appear to be bipartisan, last night was it.

Willingly, wittingly or not, the Democrats showed the country who they really are, and it is going to hurt them in the heartland.

So, Democrats,

by all means, keep sitting down.

It's Wednesday, January 31st.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I have to tell you, I do not like the State of the Union.

I hate them.

I find them a colossal waste of time.

I cannot remember the last one that I watched all the way through that I wasn't paid to sit there and watch.

I don't even know.

I think the last one we did on television, I think I may have left early and I was being paid to sit there.

I just, I just can't take them.

I hate all of the trappings.

I hate all of it.

And this one had all of the trappings that I hate.

You know, the long, you know, the, the, you know, the, the, the, uh, the, the long applause lines.

Mr.

Speaker, the president of the United States.

Five minutes of applause.

Then the speaker stands up.

I'm proud to announce the president of the United States.

Five minutes of applause.

I got it.

Let the guy talk.

I hate long speeches.

I really,

really have a hard time with speeches read on a teleprompter by somebody who can't read on a teleprompter.

With all of that being said, that was one of the best speeches I have seen a president give in a long time.

He was the best I've ever seen him.

He actually connected with much of what he was talking about emotionally, which I don't think I've ever seen before.

It was one of the best written speeches I have seen in a long time.

And it was true.

It was true.

It was true to the American values.

And I say that with

with with with a little bit of uh blindness uh today from staring directly into the how much did he recommend we spend looks like about uh don't look directly at it 2.7 trillion yeah

spending 2.7 trillion and amnesty amnesty

but citizenship too which is further than that this is this is beyond the daca debate now we're at amnesty we're at amnesty and path to citizenship

and the democrats didn't respond Oh, no, they did respond.

They did respond.

Negatively, some.

Negatively.

They're getting more than they've ever had from anyone, including McCain and Graham and Jeb Bush and all of those people.

And I'm going to take on the big pharmaceutical companies and make drugs cheaper in the United States.

Not something that's conservative.

Nothing.

No, they don't care.

Nothing.

I mean, they're never going to get it.

And that's, of course,

part of the ridiculousness of the event as a whole.

But again, you can't imagine that going better for Donald Trump than it did.

I have to tell you, you know, there were times that

this is the first time that I have seen anger, outrage on a mass scale.

I mean, with Obama, there were a lot of people that were really, you know,

you lie.

There were people that were really upset.

But not like this.

Not like this.

I have not.

When did you, have you ever heard of a congressman walking out of the speech?

No, I don't think I have.

I've never heard of that.

I don't know what, I don't know what happened to the Congressional Black Caucus, but holy cow.

I mean, their reaction was almost like you were sitting with, you know, the Black Panthers.

I mean, they were pissed.

They were pissed.

And it didn't matter.

How do you not stand for, I don't care who did it.

I don't even give the entirety of this economy at this point.

Donald Trump, do not base your success on the stock market.

Please do not

base your success.

No president can control that.

I know that.

And when it goes bad, if you have spent your whole first year and a half saying, look at the stock market, look at the stock market.

When it collapses, you're in trouble.

Don't do that.

But anyway, there's a lot of things that he did that have created jobs.

And it's not bogus jobs.

It's not like, and we're going to build a bridge.

Well, that's not a real job.

That's a job for right now until the bridge is done.

Once the government money dries up, it's over.

A real job is another, a third party that is actually a business that is building and making something of value that will go on for a long time.

That's a real job.

The other is like a part-time job.

It's a temporary job.

This guy created jobs.

The unemployment rate for African Americans is now at its lowest point in recorded history.

You got to clap for that.

How do you not clap for that?

I mean, I don't care who.

I don't care.

Again, like, I think you can, they'll, and they, many of the organizations have made these points that this recovery started before Trump was president and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

You can, you can use that if you want.

You can make it so it's about your guy more than the other guy.

But how do you not clap for the fact that this has happened?

And it's a wonderful thing.

It's a wonderful thing, no matter who's responsible for it.

You can go on TV and you can make your arguments about how this is actually Obama's doing if you want.

But how do you not say

in the end that the result is a positive?

It's a positive.

It's the best it's ever been.

And you're sitting on your hands because you don't like the president.

That's a, I mean, that's a bad look.

It's a bad look.

Really bad.

Really bad.

So, I mean, I think

it they looked like extremists last night.

They really did.

Trump,

please, Mr.

President, please don't tweet for a few days.

Please.

Yeah.

Lose the phone.

Somebody turn the electricity off on the White House.

Don't let him charge his phone.

Please don't tweet.

This was so good last night.

Please leave it alone.

And this is very uniting.

People get so sensitive whenever there's a word of criticism of Donald Trump.

And I just don't, you know, that's not how I doesn't need you to do.

He doesn't need to.

He is.

I mean, they used to call Ronald Reagan the Teflon president yeah he can do whatever he wants he doesn't need your help to defend him

it's okay he can he can he's a big boy he's a big boy absolutely um but it's interesting in that like one of the criticisms of Trump is that okay he's got policies some of them are really good and some of them conservatives really like and I think America wants to like Donald Trump there's something about him that America wants to like in that he's a businessman he kind of speaks you know a little bit more

in a way that's, that people are familiar with talking to their friends.

Like, there's something about that that they like.

And the fact that they want to like him because, you know, look at what's happened to the economy.

Look what's happened to ISIS.

There's a lot of

things that have happened.

And Americans don't want to dislike their president.

They don't.

I think that's true.

So the issue is if he's like that president last night doesn't have a 37% approval rating.

If he's that president,

again, with the same policies, the same person, but he acts like that all the time, that guy has a 55% approval rating.

He may in a year from now, if things would continue to grow and be good like it is now, he could have a 60%,

70%

approval rating.

Again, so there's a lot there to be positive about.

And I made this point before, and I think it's important.

If he stopped the tweeting, 0% of his base would go away.

The only thing you'd have is upside of people who don't like that stuff.

And I use tweeting as a more generality of

him actually using Twitter.

It's just a matter of

the outliers, right?

Like the things that he gets that create the controversies.

All the 38%, they're all staying if he stops doing that.

They all like him

for a million reasons.

And he's done a relatively good job with the economy, with ISIS, for sure.

There's like a lot of things you can praise.

It just, you wonder why he doesn't learn because every time he does this, and he did it last year, too.

He had a good speech in the State of the Union slot last year, too.

And two days later, it was over.

And, you know, I think if he keeps this vibe going,

the 2018 election, 2020, is going to be easy.

It is easy.

It's just a matter of maintaining it.

It's being consistent.

I know.

And I don't know that he could do that.

If he has the discipline to do what he did last night, and last night, it's a huge win for him.

Yes.

Huge win.

Did you see the polling on it?

No.

75% of people who watched the speech approved of it, including 43%

of Democrats.

It was, there was,

look,

and I like this

about people.

I don't want to agree with somebody I listen to or I don't, I don't think that's reasonable.

There's something wrong if I am agreeing with somebody all the time on everything and they never surprise me.

You're like, oh, wow, I never looked at it that way.

Hmm.

You're right or you're wrong, but that's that's really an interesting take and consistent with you.

I like that.

Okay.

I like the fact that we have a president that could make me feel good

and the other side feel good.

I don't mean the Marxist side, you know, just

the average Democrat feel good.

I did.

I did that.

Right.

We never got that from Obama.

Obama never threw us a bone.

Ever.

It was all about get in the back seat.

You've been driving.

We're not going to let you drive.

We're not going going to let you have much to say.

You've been saying stuff for a while and you got us in the ditch.

That was, it was abusive the way this president treated or the way the last president treated the half of the country.

It was abusive.

Last night, this president did something I've never seen before.

He should have.

Now, because he's the amazing Donald Trump that doesn't ever seem to piss anybody off on his own side.

He offered things to the Democrats no conservative would ever, ever offer.

Amazing.

Amazing.

And because he's Donald Trump, you could actually get the conservatives to go along with it.

And the Democrats don't want to do it.

Thank God they still complain and push back because that's the best chance for him to say no.

Holy cow.

Remarkable.

Remarkable.

Today is a day, for those of you who keep track, I want to say,

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Do you think last night, do you think last night that there was Steve Bannon sitting someplace in an almost empty, kind of, you know, sleazy bar?

So, so far, yes, I think the answer is

with a bottle of whiskey, half drunk.

List looking up at the TV going, what the hell is

you need me?

Last night,

it was everything that the Steve Bannon speech,

you know,

wasn't.

It didn't have any of the creepy, you know, kind of stuff that Steve Bannon was pushing for in all of the speeches.

And this is what happens when you don't try to go to the alt-right.

What happens when you just, when you just say, look, these are principles.

We did these things.

Here's how they worked out.

And now, let's be uniting.

Holy cow, that was definitely not Bannon, that part.

We'll get to that next.

Glenn back.

Mercury.

You're listening to the Glenn Beck program.

So in the bar of my mind, and believe me, there's always a bar in my mind.

In the bar room of my mind last night, there were only two customers, and they were sitting on opposite ends of the bar.

One end of the bar was Steve Bannon watching this unbelievable performance performance of the president last night, going, I could have been somebody.

I

was there.

What happened?

He's got a half-drunk bottle of whiskey in front of him, and he's just replaying every moment of the last year in his head.

The far end of the bar, on the other end, is another man with a half-drunk bottle of Zima.

And it's Barack Obama going, What I is Guantanamo Bay,

the rules of engagement are completely reversed.

And

I mean,

all these things,

I thought for sure an executive order was the law.

He thought he'd be president forever.

Yeah.

No, no.

If you look at many of his great accomplishments were all through executive order.

They've been reversed.

And there are air quotes around great accomplishments, by the way.

Yeah, I know.

But let me just say this.

Republicans, President, Mr.

President, please learn this lesson.

You cannot rule through edict.

The next president that comes in is just going to reverse your stuff.

It's got to be passed.

It's got to go through Congress because then you don't change it.

And that is the tax reform.

You know, that's not an edict, but just a lot of the things that he has done have been, you know, presidential edicts.

Those change.

Yeah, he's been,

the best part of his presidency has been his executive policy, which is great, except for the fact that the next guy can reverse it.

And the next Congress can reverse a law, too.

However, much more difficult to accomplish.

I believe he's also appointed more local, or I mean, federal judges and district judges than any other president in history.

Right.

And that's, you know, lasting.

Many of his appointments, I mean, it's funny because

over the time where he was from a a candidate to president, there's been obviously different aspects that I've had a problem with of his presidency and of his run.

But a lot of that was tied to Steve Bannon, though.

I mean, the Bannon elements of this presidency have always been very disturbing to me.

And he's gone.

You know, Flynn's gone.

A lot of the guys that we were talking about thinking they were the worst appointments were gone.

I love Scott Pruitt.

I love Mick Mulvaney.

I love Matt.

I love Kelly.

How is Mick Mulvaney dealing dealing with a $1.7 trillion

stimulus package?

Yeah, and that was so, and that's part of the spending.

I mean, again, I think you go through the first part of this is looking at that speech and saying, how was it?

You know what I mean?

Like, look at it

as a moment in time.

How was it?

And I don't think you could possibly expect that to go better than it did.

I mean, that is,

it was, it was, now it was interesting because you watched it.

I listened to it.

And as someone who just listened to it and didn't see the visuals, Nixon won.

Yeah, Nixon did what?

No,

but

I thought it was really well done.

He seemingly,

that Trump, I think, is the better.

It's a little bit boring.

You tweeted about this a little bit last night.

You know, he's not like saying the wild things.

It's not necessarily as fun, but it is.

It's a little bit more boring, presidential, but that's good, I think.

That's good.

He's better.

No, I was conflicted all night.

He was conflicted all night.

It was like, well, I should say at the very beginning of the speech, when he first started in and everything, he was on teleprompter, you know, kind of doing that.

He was almost like delivering it at the beginning, like Clint East would with a squinty eye.

And you're like, what is happening here?

But,

you know, when he's on teleprompter and the speech is, you know, just a usual speech, it's, it's boring.

You want him off the teleprompter because then it's at least entertaining.

However, this speech was so well written.

I lasted the entire speech.

I watched every word of this speech.

I can't remember the last time I did that.

But if you you kind of break the speech into three types of content, right?

There's one,

Trump essentially taking credit for the good things he's done, right?

Every president does this.

You brag about the stuff you've done.

Every single president does it every time.

That's part one.

Part two, let me show you, let me give you that color of it, right?

Here is this person who had this happen to them.

Here's this person who escaped North Korea.

Here's this person whose child was tragically murdered.

Here's this person who got a new job and is now a welder.

All those things, kind of that, the color of the event.

Here's an illustration of the things I believe are important.

And then the third would be new policy proposals.

What are the things he wants to do in the future?

Which is the part of this, by the way, that is required by the Constitution, right?

The State of the Union says from time to time, they'll give updates on things that they believe are going to be priorities.

What is the state doing and what should we do in the future?

So if you break that up into the three parts, the first two parts were home runs.

Him talking about the things that he has done.

I thought he was great on that and didn't do the typical real over-exaggeration of it.

There were a couple claims that you could have problems with, but generally speaking, like biggest tax cut in history.

It wasn't the biggest tax cut.

They believe it's the 12th biggest tax cut in history.

But it's still

the tax cut.

Why do that?

I have the biggest crowd ever.

No, stop it.

It's fine.

Everything was fine.

Right.

This was really good.

He didn't do much of that, though.

You know, like a lot of the stuff was like, you know, people were saying, well, we've had great job creation and they have had great job creation and people will point out well the you know the last five years of obama um it had higher numbers which is true technically but it each job to add to the economy as you get closer to full employment is more difficult so i think there's a real argument to be made that you know he may this is his economic accomplishments have been really good the tax the the this the stock market being high well it's it's risky to stake your entire claim on that which i don't think he did but i mean

that can be problematic long term.

But I mean, it's true.

It is at the highest it's been, right?

So, him taking credit for the stuff he's done, I thought worked out really well.

His illustration,

you know, where he's taking people from the crowd and pointing out what they've done.

Usually, I hate those things always because they're very pandering and stuff.

I thought he did a great job of that.

It's probably one of the best I've ever seen.

You need to listen to it, you need to watch those scenes.

Yeah, they were so powerful, they were so powerful.

Great job with with those the people, Warmbeers family,

even the guy from North Korea, when he stood up with the crutches and the two families that lost their daughters to MS-13, the pain on their faces was, it was heart-wrenching.

It was just, it was, it was a masterpiece of emotion.

It really was.

And that's important.

It's one of the, those two things are the reason why I believe he had 75% approval of the speech.

I think it was 97% among Republicans and 43% of Democrats, which is insanely high, especially for a guy who is as generally speaking as divisive as Trump is.

I mean, you know, if you like him, you love him.

And if you don't like him, you really don't like him.

So Democrats don't usually cheer anything that he's done.

So connecting with the emotion, giving a positive picture of America, absolute home runs.

The policy prescriptions are important.

And we can, I think, lose sight of the fact that he made a lot of proposals last night.

Some of them were good.

But I mean, let me give you four quick things from that speech last night.

One, $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending.

Crazy.

Now, remember, this is now literally double what Obama wanted for infrastructure spending.

And got.

And got.

And we complained about like crazy.

He's now doubled it.

And he said, by the way, we should point out, not $1.5 trillion, but at least, was his quote, at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending.

That is a big freaking deal.

And we can't ignore it as conservatives.

As you pointed out, I don't know how Mick Mulvaney gets through it, having to pitch for that proposal because he was one of the biggest voices against that sort of spending under Obama.

I know, look, he's not the president.

He's got to support the policies of his boss, and I understand that, but that's got to be difficult for him because he is a real budget hawk.

So that's one, $1.5 trillion.

The Family Leave Act, he again wants to bring free paid family leave to, he's, he's, there's several proposals here, but it's talking, you're talking about people, you know, maternity leave and leave for sickness and all these other things.

They all, they're all feel really good, feel-good policies, cost of fortune.

The estimates are up to $700 billion

for these programs.

Again,

stimulus was $787 billion.

So this is another, this this could be, it depends on what parts of that he enacts, but the cost is usually between $100 billion and $700 billion.

So we don't know the exact cost of that because he could trim it

up to $2 trillion, maybe $2.22.2, $2 to $2.2,

give or take.

And then another $500 billion of ending a sequester, which he made a big point of.

That gets you to about $2.7 trillion.

And that gives you no economic impact whatsoever.

I'm not factoring in any cost at all to giving citizenship to 2 million illegal immigrants.

So I'm saying no cost to that at all.

And we're at well over $2 trillion, maybe as high as $2.7.

And that is with him giving his low estimate because he said at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure.

So it could be even more than that.

We've heard estimates at least as high as $1.7 trillion for that.

So, you know, you have to step back from, I liked the speech.

I thought it was great.

It was as good as I could possibly ever imagine a Donald Trump speech being.

I couldn't even imagine that.

It was overwhelmingly well received by the American people.

Our job, as I think, conservatives is to say to Donald Trump, hey, look, you know, this part's great.

This part's great.

This part's great.

Spending another $3 trillion is not an ideal path.

Beyond not an ideal path.

I don't think it's a sustainable path.

So it's interesting.

You said

the three areas of his speech were

what?

Were bragging, which, by the way, I think that is 100%, it's not a Trump thing.

That is every president takes time to say, this is what we've accomplished in the last year.

It has to be part of that speech.

So I call it bragging, but that's part one bragging.

Yeah, got it.

Part two, the color, the emotional way of illustrating these stories, bringing out people from North Korea, et cetera.

And then third, policy prescriptions, where are we going going forward?

So here's what I, I thought it was in three parts too.

And I wrote them down when you said yours.

I wrote my three parts and I thought we were going to agree and we didn't.

Part one, who we are.

He didn't really brag about all of his, he, he wasn't saying, I was making America great.

He said the American people have been unleashed and they made America great.

And here are some of the stories that have happened.

Okay.

So the first part, I think, was the color.

And

just who we are.

This is who we are.

It was a statement of we believe in God.

we believe in the flag, we, you know, we have these principles, who we are.

I'd put that in the color, the color category.

Yeah, I know.

I'm combining those and making that who we are.

The second one is,

surprise, look what I'm willing to give you

to the Democrats.

Surprise, because he kept looking over.

You didn't see this, but he kept looking over to the Democrats and like, what are you not?

How are you not applauding on that?

How?

How?

I mean, it was amazing.

And it was genuine.

He was genuinely shocked.

What?

We're talking prescription drugs here.

And you're sitting on your hands.

So, surprise, here's what I'm willing to give you: part two.

And the third part that we haven't talked about, and we're going to spend some time on tonight, is war.

I don't know if anybody else felt this, and it may just be because I remember the Cold War, and I remember the Evil Empire speech.

I remember

what it felt like, the buildup to a war like that war.

I

said to my daughter yesterday, she was sitting there and I said, oh, good God,

this feels like we're going to war.

And she said,

Dad, we're already at war.

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The two girls that were lost by MS-13, our research team has been looking into that and finding that story and all the details.

We're going to tell all of

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Glenn Beck.

We're going to spend a full hour with Jordan Peterson

coming up in just a few minutes.

Jordan Peterson is this amazing professor from Canada.

So well-spoken, so

clear on what is right and wrong.

Not a bomb thrower.

The great thing is, he's Canadian.

I've not heard him talk about politics.

And he's talking about the rules for life.

There are simple rules for life.

He says there's 12 of them.

He's got a new book out, The 12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

Maybe I like him so much because we think so much alike.

If you don't know who he is, you're going to love him.

If you do know who he is, a full hour with him, Jordan Peterson, next.

Glenn, Beck.

Mercury.

Love.

Courage.

Truth.

Glenn Beck.

I got a quick general tip for life.

I think it's universal.

Don't make a list of Jewish enemies or any other list of enemies based on, you know, ethnic background.

Just a bad idea.

It never really works out well.

Yesterday, former congressional candidate Paul Nalen, the guy who lost overwhelmingly to Paul Ryan in the 2016 Wisconsin Republican primary, blamed Jews for attacking his America First positions.

He used Twitter to post a spreadsheet of the names, including, you know, whether the person is a Jew or not.

Really, very, no, it's classy.

He claims to have received 81 personal attacks on Twitter in the last month.

Wow, only 81?

I mean, whoa.

Of those 81 Twitter attackers,

he said 74 are Jewish, which can only mean one thing.

You know, of course, say with me.

Fast Jewish conspiracy.

Conspiracy.

Right.

To ruin the popularity that Nalan thinks he has.

It could also be that

Nalan just hates Jews.

By the way, his research pretty much sucks as it turns out several people on his list weren't actually Jewish, which, huh, who would have thunk it?

You know, maybe Mr.

Nalen hasn't gotten the calipers out and measured people's heads.

So that could be.

He also posted charts with photos of people who work at CNN, NBC, New York Times, NPR, Fox News, complete with stars of David on their photo to point out the Jews.

He said that Twitter made him delete those photos.

He's trying to portray himself as a victim of censorship and oppression.

Look, I believe in the freedom of speech.

You can say what you want.

Even this kind of speech is abhorrent.

There's always been people like Nalen, and there always will be.

The difference now is they have this megaphone of social media.

So the question is, why engage with a guy like this?

He's spewing hate.

People, you know, just can't take it.

They want to fight back.

But you're never going to win the argument.

You're not going to change his mind.

Pointing out that he sounds, you know, kind of like a 1930s Nazi isn't going to suddenly make Nalen say, well, you know what?

I kind of do sound like a Nazi.

Oh, I didn't even know about that.

I should reevaluate my belief in Jews.

This guy's a flame out.

He's a flame out politician.

He is grasping for anything to help him keep afloat as he aims for Ryan's house seat again this year.

You have to keep an eye on people like this, especially when organizations like Breitbart gave him his own column for a while.

Don't help him trend on Twitter.

He's a former darling of Steve Bannon and Breitbart.

He is part of the whole psycho-alt-right white nationalist fringe that guys like Bannon have been trying to bring under the wing of the Republican Party.

These guys are crackpots, they're dangerous.

But the left would love America to think that those

crackpots are part of mainstream conservative thought.

They're not.

Conservatives and Republicans, you can't run fast enough from people like Paul Nalen and the alt-right.

It's Wednesday, January 31st.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

You've been listening to this program

about in, I think maybe 2005, 2006,

I started doing my research on the 12th Imam, which is this crazy end of times theology of

some people who live in the Middle East, specifically Iran.

And

it's scary.

They're very dangerous.

As I did my research on it, the goal to hasten the return of the promised one is to wash the world in blood and create chaos.

And I said in 2006, and I've been saying it ever since,

run from chaos.

Put order in your life.

The world is going to start moving towards chaos.

This is what Russia and Alexander Dugan is also pushing is his chaos theory.

Chaos is the work of darkness.

For I don't know how long people have been saying, you've got to get Jordan Peterson on.

He's the greatest guy in the history of the world.

And we're like, yeah, yeah, okay, we'll get to him.

We'll get to him.

We'll get to him.

Then finally, we sat down and we watched him and we understand why everybody was saying, you've got to have him on.

He's just written a new book, The 12 Rules of Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

Welcome to the program, Jordan Peterson.

How are you, sir?

I'm good.

How are you doing?

I'm good.

If I may describe your book this way, tell me if I'm wrong.

People right now feel this chaos and they feel they're overwhelmed and they feel like everything they do or have done doesn't make any difference.

And so they're starting to unplug and they're starting to throw up their hands and get frustrated and angry.

You are saying that, no, no, no, forget about the big picture.

Do these 12 little, pretty simple things and you'll change the world.

At least change your life.

Yeah, well, that's a good place to start.

And you won't do any harm either.

So, you know, first do no harm.

Right.

The physicians have it.

So, first of all, let me just give the, or have you give your credentials.

You

are a clinical psychologist and a professor of psychology.

And you have really been found and kind of a worldwide sensation on YouTube.

And you're really...

Go ahead.

Oh, no, that's so far.

So far, you've got it right.

Yeah, I've been a practicing clinical psychologist for about 20 years.

I've spent tens of thousands of hours talking to people about their deepest problems.

And I've worked as a business consultant, and

I've helped entrepreneurs, I've helped companies find entrepreneurs to help run them.

I've done all sorts of things.

I want to go through the book, and we have some time with you today.

So I want to go through the book.

We can't go through all 12, but I'm just going to give you

the advice, and then you tell me exactly what it means and how to apply it.

Rule number two: treat yourself like someone you're responsible for helping.

Yeah, well, people are hard on themselves.

You know, everybody's aware of their own flaws and faults and inadequacies and failures to live up to even their own ideals.

And we're also painfully aware that we do things purposefully wrong from time to time, just out of spite and a desire to produce misery.

And because of that,

we don't feel as positively predisposed towards ourselves as we might.

And so we don't take care of ourselves very well.

And it's deeper than that, even we we kind of have contempt for ourselves because we're fragile and mortal and and

and and subject to the tragic conditions of life.

And we're not exactly sure, I would say, that we deserve the best or that we deserve to be taken care of properly.

People will often treat their animals better than they treat themselves.

And that's not good.

It's not good.

You have to detach yourself from yourself a little bit and understand that you deserve to be cared for like

at a level of basic decency just like any other living creature let's say it you should want the best for yourself i've always been fascinated by the human race because we are we really are self-hating egomaniacs we um we build ourselves up into these all-powerful

but as individuals

we we also have this self-uh loathing how do you

so it so it doesn't sound like people have a hard time of it you know i mean we're the only creatures that are self-conscious and we're aware of the fragility of life and on our own flaws and so because of that it's very difficult for us to regard ourselves properly and and so chapter two uh rule two treat yourself as if you're someone

that you should take care of

is is a description of why it is a deep description of why it is that people have doubts about their own being, and then also what you should do in the face of that.

I mean,

the fact that we're faced with our own mortality constantly and with the human proclivity for evil means that we have a very large burden to bear, but we're also capable of doing that.

And you should regard yourself positively as someone who's able to face the tragedy and malevolence of existence and still move forward and sometimes move forward with great nobility and grace.

I mean, people can operate under horrendous conditions and do so, well,

admirably, and that's something really remarkable.

And so, chapter two, rule two, is about asking people to treat themselves with some respect and see what might happen as a consequence.

Do you think that I just read a study this morning that shows depression rates of teenagers are up

48%,

Suicide is up 24% since 2010.

And the study showed that it coincided with the use of a smartphone

and all of the social media.

Do you think this is

helping us?

Because we're one of your other rules, let me see which one it is.

Here, rule four, compare yourself to who you were yesterday and not who someone else is today.

Do you think some of this is coming from we're not good enough because

we don't have the life that we think everybody else has based on their bogus Facebook page?

Well,

I think there's a couple of things going on there.

We're undergoing sequential technological revolutions, and it's not easy to keep up.

And so I think we don't know what to do with all the magical technological devices that are being thrown our way.

It's a very, very steep learning curve.

And social media, all the major social media outlets, Twitter and YouTube and Instagram and so forth they all have their advantages and their pitfalls they're quite addictive and they do throw you out into a massive realm and allow you to compare yourself to the well to the Facebook version of everyone else and that definitely is rough and you don't and you pointed out rule four compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

That's a good maxim to live by because no one else is really like you in any deep sense.

I mean, obviously, people have their similarities, but the conditions of your life truly are unique.

And what the way to,

you need an ideal to pursue.

I compare myself to other people to establish that ideal, but you don't really.

You have to figure out who you are and then try to be better than that.

And that's something you can always do, too.

And one of the things I tried to do in that rule is outline why that's good enough.

Like you can make incremental changes over who you are right now, and those incremental changes will compound and transform you across time.

It's a really, really powerful way of looking at the world.

And it stops you from being bitter and resentful.

I mean, part of the problem is, is when you look at someone who you think is doing better than you, I mean, look, perhaps they are.

We don't want to be naive about it.

You don't know everything about their life.

You know, if you're admiring a celebrity and you think, well, I'd love to have a life like that.

You see the celebrity as a very low resolution hero.

You don't know the details of their life.

You have no idea how they're doing across 10 or 11 dimensions of comparison,

the dimensions that are important.

It's better to think about who you are now, to take stock of your flaws and your virtues and to move forward from that foundation.

That way you can have an ideal.

I'm going to be better than I am.

And you don't have to be bitter and resentful because you're not who you think someone else is.

So

maybe the social media feeds that, you know, I'm a 22-year recovering alcoholic, and I discovered something about myself that I wonder if it isn't true about most people.

When I first started my journey into figuring out really who I was late in life in my 30s,

I stopped, and I really didn't, it wasn't

real conscious, a conscious stop in some ways.

And then I was motivated to continue to look deep inside of me.

And I realized at that time, the reason why I think I was afraid, and I don't know if this

transfers to other people, but

I was afraid because I was afraid there was nothing really of value inside of me.

Yeah, right.

Well, that's it.

And that is people's deepest fear is that

really there's nothing valuable

about people.

And I truly believe that is deeply, deeply deeply wrong.

Like, one of the things I've tried to do in 12 Rules for Life is to take a very stark appraisal of human existence.

Like, I do believe that our lives are fundamentally tragic.

You know, we grow old, we get sick, we die, we lose the people we love, all of that.

We're finite creatures, you know, and there is real malevolence and evil in the world.

not only in the hearts of other people, but definitely in our own hearts.

And so the conditions of existence are very dire in some sense, tragedy and evil.

But I do believe that there are ways of living in the world that enable us to transcend that, and that the old idea that we each have a light inside of us that, if turned on, will illuminate the world, I believe that to be true.

I think that the human spirit is more powerful than death and evil, and that if you live a truthful life, And if you live a life that's oriented towards the highest good, that you can withstand the burden of being and you can discover within yourself something that's, well, that's that spark of divinity that unites you with God.

Back with more from Jordan Peterson here in just a moment.

He's at Jordan B.

Peterson on Twitter.

The book is called 12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

We may have been a little esoteric here

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He is so right

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I fear I'm doing him a disservice.

He is

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What it takes to be a man.

And many of his followers on

YouTube are young men.

They're starving to hear what does it mean to be a man?

More in a second.

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Glenn Beck.

We covered the presidential speech last hour, and we will continue here in about 34 minutes with some more analysis on what happened in Washington last night.

It was absolutely amazing.

But we're joined now by Jordan Peterson.

He's got a new book that is out today.

It's called 12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

Jordan,

I've been watching you now for a few months and I saw something that you just did on the BBC where the presenter was after you from the beginning.

There wasn't an honest question I didn't feel

from the get-go.

She was trying.

It was almost like every question was like, come on, fight with me.

What is it that you're saying that is making so many people

just angry?

Because I don't see it.

Well, I'm calling out the identity politics types on the left

in a really blunt way, you know, and so they're not very happy about that.

But you're doing it with facts.

You're doing it with ease and gentleness and kindness.

It's worse.

I know.

It's worse.

because you know what if the the the radical leftists have to paint everybody who opposes them as some kind of super villain because if they don't if the person who opposes them isn't unreasonable then they're reasonable and that means that reasonable people can critique the radical left and i am a reasonable person and that makes me more threatening rather than less.

And I mean, I believe that the radical leftists have pretty much destroyed the humanities.

and that's a terrible thing because they're at the core of the university.

And I also believe, and there was an article in the Boston Globe just this last week making exactly the same case, that the corruption of the humanities is now spreading out into the broader public, into corporations and so forth, often through the back door of human resources.

And I'm pointing all this out, the pathological legislation that's been passed in camp, for example, requiring compelled speech that results in the inquisition of a teaching assistant at Wilford Laurier University.

And yeah, and people aren't very happy with me as a consequence because I'm describing what's going on and also why it's wrong.

It's really wrong for us to degenerate back into tribalism.

So I want to

go into that.

We have to take a quick break.

And I want to go into that.

Why it's wrong.

We are in several tribes and we're all really doing it.

Why is it wrong and

how do we change that in our own life?

Glenn Beck Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

Whether he knows it or not, there is a movement, a global movement that is building underneath Dr.

Jordan Peterson.

He's a Canadian.

He is now sweeping the world on YouTube.

A lot of young people are really listening to him and following him.

And

he is articulating universal principles that haven't been articulated this way in a long time.

In his new book, 12 Rules for Life, he says things like this, confront the chaos of being.

Take aim against the sea of troubles.

Specify your destination and chart your course.

Admit what you want.

Tell those around you who you are.

Narrow and gaze attentively and move forward forthrightly.

We were talking about before the break something that, and this was a, kind of reminded reminded me of a recent article about sort of an alt-right conspiracy gathering in New York City.

And a bunch of reporters went to it, and they started asking, trying to fish around for what their ideology was.

And one of them said this, we're not ideological.

We're tribal.

We don't care about the politics as much as we care about pissing people off and trolling and shaking things up.

Doctor, before we went to the break, you mentioned the way we are starting to degenerate into tribalism.

I think people now are starting to look at tribalism as a positive.

Why isn't it?

Well, people, when they lose their unifying parents, they degenerate into tribalism.

You saw that happening, for example, in Yugoslavia

when the wall fell and the Soviet Empire collapsed.

People degenerate back into their tribal groups.

Now, look, when you move from being a child to being an adult, you have to pass through a period of time where your primary affiliation is to the group.

That's what happens when you're a teenager and a young adult.

You have to become socialized.

You have to take your place as a member of a group.

But that isn't where your development should end.

You should then transcend the group and become an individual.

And then you're part of the force that establishes and renews the group as well as just being part of the group.

And it's that transcendent identity as an individual that enables different groups to live together on the same territory peacefully because I can come out of my group as a forthright and honest individual and you can come out of your group the same way and we can communicate and negotiate and we can figure out how to cooperate and compete peacefully and to trade and all of that without degenerating into tribal murderousness.

Now, what's happening in our culture is that the radical left is attempting to establish a narrative.

And you say this globally.

You're not just talking about the United States.

Yes.

No, no, no.

This is happening all over the world, but particularly in the West.

And it's everywhere.

And the radical left narrative is that there's no superordinate narrative.

There's nothing that really unites us.

The world is a landscape of competing power interests, and those power interests are...

We lost you.

Hang on.

Those power interests, are you there?

Can you hear me?

Yeah, I can hear you now.

We just lost you.

You said those power interests are

based on ethnicity or race or gender,

these essential elements elements that no one can change, and that the entire world is just a battleground of power between those competing groups, and that some of them oppress the others.

The right wing looks at that, the radical right, and says, okay,

if the world is nothing but a battleground between power groups, then I'm going to pick my power group, whatever it happens to be, and I'm going to win.

And so they both end up playing this extraordinarily dangerous group identity game.

And there's nothing at the end of that except catastrophe.

So can I ask you this question?

And I ask you this as a Canadian, because that way you're not getting into politics.

As an outsider,

we've lost our national identity

and we don't know who we are anymore.

As an outsider looking in,

what is the identity that all Americans could and should unite around?

Who are we?

Well, it's the old American dream.

It's that America is a place where people judge on their confidence and able to compete in.

Doctor,

I don't know if you've moved into another room or something, but we're losing you and

we could barely understand you.

Oh, so let's try this.

Is that I don't know what's wrong with the connection.

Is it okay?

No, that's no, now you're gone again.

Can you hear me now?

Do you have

I can hear you

well?

All right, so go ahead and I'll tell you if we drop that

okay.

So, well, the United States is a beacon to the world as far as I'm concerned.

Lightboat,

typical of the West.

We're going to have to stop and see if we can get a new connection with you.

We're going to call you right back and see if we can get a new connection.

We're going to take a quick break

and come back with Dr.

Jordan Peterson.

Canadian phone systems.

Blame the Canadians.

Typical Glenn.

Jordan Peterson is the author of 12 Rules for Life.

We're going to have him back in just a second.

It's an antidote to chaos, which a clear cell phone connection is also

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Glenn back.

We're talking to Dr.

Jordan Peterson from Canada.

He is a new favorite of mine and really, I mean, just so clear in his thinking.

He has a huge global following that has been building for a while.

And a lot of them are young males, and he is not spoon feeding them stuff.

You know, average uh the average person in the media or you know in uh in universities would say you know oh that's what they want to hear and you got to coddle them he doesn't coddle them he tells them grow up be a man what does that mean um uh jordan to when you're talking to these guys what is it they're starving for

well they're starving for the idea that their life has purpose a recognition of the idea that their life has purpose and so i tell them well there's there's things to do out there in the world you know there's chaos to confront, and there's order to establish and revivify, and there's suffering to ameliorate, and there's evil to constrain, and that the world is a lesser place if you don't take your place in it.

And that the consequences of that are dire.

You have an important destiny.

You know, I tell them that they're made in the image of God, like the old stories say, and that they have something beneficial.

God, every time I talk about this, it it breaks me up.

They have something beneficial that they have to bring into the world.

It's that that stops the world from degenerating into hell.

And that it truly is important for you to get out of bed in the morning and

to face the world honestly and to set your family straight and to work for your community and to aim at something great in the world.

This is vital.

Without that,

everyone suffers stupidly and miserably.

And why bother with that?

Like, you can't just hide in the basement and shirk your responsibilities.

It makes you miserable and bitter and even murderous.

It's not a pathway to take.

It's just good to stand up and take on the burden of the world and to pick up your damn cross and walk up the hill.

You need to do that.

It's important.

It truly is important.

And that people aren't one dot and one speck among 7 billion.

We're all networked together.

We're all in this together.

And we could do something remarkable together if we aimed high and spoke the truth.

The right way to live.

Some of your prescriptions are pretty tough for this, though.

And looking at you, you know, Rule 6 is one that pops out to me

because this is something I've...

I've found over and over again that people absolutely despise doing with themselves, which is set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.

That is something that people don't want to do.

It's very difficult to do.

How do you make them do it?

Well, I think what you do is what I tried to do in that chapter is that chapter is about kids who shot up the Columbine High School and about a mass murderer named Carl Panzram.

And I try to describe in detail the motivations for doing such things.

People who do such things have very powerful motivations for doing them.

They're very angry about the conditions of existence, the tragedy that constitutes existence, and they get bitter and resentful, and then they want revenge, and they're willing to take it.

Well, they're willing to take revenge on the most innocent.

I mean, that's what the guy who shot up the school in Connecticut did.

He went and shot kids.

Like, well, how the hell do you get into a situation like that?

And you brood on the horrors of existence and you get resentful for your part in the tragedy.

And there's no excuse for that.

I mean, life is very, very difficult.

There's no doubt about that.

And unfair things happen.

But to retreat and to become resentful and bitter is only to multiply the problem.

And so chapter six is an injunction.

It's an anti-activist injunction, I would say, to some degree.

Like for the last 50 years, we've encouraged young people to go out there and

stop the people who are doing bad things from doing them.

And I just think that's a counterproductive way of living in the world.

It's like you should should stop the bad things that you're doing and you should straighten up your life.

And then you should straighten up your family's life and then your community's life.

And then everything will be straight and proper.

And

that's all to the good.

Then maybe we won't degenerate back into that brutal tribalism that characterized the 21st century and wipe ourselves out.

So I am, I'm, I'm, I'm sitting here.

I, I have found these things myself over the last few years and to be true.

And people will say, well, you can't surrender and retreat and you can't just let it go by.

And you're like, no, I'm not letting it go by.

I'm not surrendering.

I'm just not playing that game because it gets us nowhere.

And I can make an impact in my own home and in my own life.

And that changes things.

It's not trivial either.

Like, you know, it's not that easy to set your family in order.

And if you do that, you'll learn something deep.

You know, if you can make peace with your brothers and your sisters, and if you can make peace with your parents and your past, and you can make your own house peaceful and productive, then you've learned some deep psychological and practical truths.

And then when you go out into the world and attempt to do things, you're going to be first on a very solid footing because you'll have lots of support and you won't be tortured by

a never-ending stream of domestic hell and idiocy.

And you'll be ready to do things in the world that

are appropriate and proper.

You'll have practice.

It's like setting your house in order is trivial.

It's very difficult.

You admit that there is evil in the world, and it is profound.

And I think that's...

That's one of the most self-evident things about the world.

I know.

And people will hear this, because I've heard this from people.

Glenn, there's evil, and it has to be stopped.

Yes, it does.

And you're, you know, just a retreat from evil because that's just not going to stop.

Can you connect the dot to

the chaos in our own life and then the evil that is out?

Look to yourself first.

That's the thing, is that the best place to begin the process of constraining evil is in your own heart.

Like, you know, I've studied totalitarian brutality for 30 years.

And one of the things that I taught my students, well,

since the early 1990s, is that if they were if each of them was placed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, there's an overwhelming probability that they would be Nazis.

Like everybody thinks, no, I'd be Schindler rescuing the Jews.

I'd be the Dutch family that hid Anne Frank.

It's like, no, you wouldn't.

That's not true.

You'd be on the side of the majority, just like you are now, in all probability.

And if the temptation was put in front of you to do the terrible things things that were offered to the people who did the terrible things the Nazis and the Communists did, then it's really probable that you would do those.

And it's also really probable that you're doing such things already on a smaller scale.

You're torturing the people that you love.

You're betraying your friends.

You're not working up to your potential at work.

There's all sorts of things that you're doing in your life that are small examples of the things that get out of control in tyrannical societies.

Lots of people are tyrants in their own little domain, or they're tyrants to themselves.

I'm sure that you

that needs to be stopped.

I'm sure that you have read

the book Ordinary Men on how

men, yeah, in Poland were they did with compassion at first,

and they turned into monsters.

It's a slow, gradual thing that you just don't see.

Oh, that's a that's a that's a that's a great and terrible book, Ordinary Men.

Yeah, it's one of the ones that's I have a reading list on my website, and that's one of the books that's on the reading list because that is a great example of how you move to perdition one step at a time and how perfectly ordinary people can be trained, even against their own will in some sense, against their own better instincts to become, well, committers of atrocity.

We have a

I read history, I don't read it as an innocent bystander.

I read history as a perpetrator, and that's the right way to to read history.

We have a list of books to read as well, and it's quite long, but move this to the top of your list.

12 Rules for Life, an Antidote to Chaos.

Move this up on your list of things to do or watch.

Jordan Peterson on YouTube.

He is

so well spoken, so well thought out, and a voice of common sense that you just don't hear very often anymore.

Dr.

Peterson, thank you so much.

I appreciate it, and we'll talk again.

God bless.

Thanks very much for the invitation.

It was good talking with you.

Good talking to you.

Jordan Peterson, again, the name of the book, 12 Rules for Life.

All right, we go back to the Capitol and the President's speech last night.

Next,

Glenn Beck, Mercury

Love, Courage,

Truth,

Glenn Beck, White, Wealthy, and Privileged.

Oh, my gosh, run.

Last night, the Democrats

chose somebody to deliver the Democratic response that really kind of shows how out of touch they really are.

If you're going after white, wealthy, and privileged, you don't pick a Kennedy to deliver the message.

Democrats continue to claim that they are the party of diversity and the poor, but last night,

the grandson of Robert Kennedy was handpicked, of course, by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, two white, wealthy, and privileged people desperately clinging to the glory days of the Democratic Party.

So blinded by their perception of the past that they refused to address the Kennedy family history,

which just I would like to point out does include a history of deception, infidelity, sexual misconduct, oh, and murder.

Leaving a woman on the floorboard of a car, you know, to die because you didn't want to get caught having sex with her.

I mean, me too.

Hashtag me too.

Good heavens.

How do you put a Kennedy on the pedestal during the Me Too movement?

Does nobody remember this?

Does anyone remember he left her to die to cover it all up?

That's what happened.

And his family helped him cover it up.

Mary Joe Kopeckny was the former secretary of Joe Kennedy's grandfather.

Let me say that again.

The secretary of the guy last night that they picked, the secretary of the grandfather.

I'm sorry.

Joe, I'm sorry.

Mary Joe Copechny was the secretary of the grandfather that they had on last night.

That's nuts.

And it's not like after that, the Kennedys like went, oh, you know what?

Boy, we are, we've been a bad family.

Maybe we should clean up our act.

They continue.

Democrats,

if I may quote Nancy Pelosi, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself.

It was so much cooler when she said it.

If Trump's election didn't send a clear message that the American people are done with political dynasties, I don't know what will.

Nancy, Chuck, there's so much here to learn from, but one is stop digging up the Kennedys.

It's Wednesday, January 31st.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

So I just, I

we assigned this out.

We assigned this out.

We assigned the full disclosure here.

Yeah, to watch Joe Kennedy last night.

Did you notice

something wrong with his

maybe it was just the way the lights were on him.

I don't know.

Anyway,

so Joe Kennedy last night delivered the address, and it, you know, it did,

I don't think anybody was watching by that time.

And here to talk about it, the man we assigned is Jeff Fisher.

Hello, Jeffy.

How are you?

I'm fine.

Thank you.

And, you know, hey, this country from textiles to robots is a place that knows how to make great things.

I mean, he told us that.

And, you know, we believe that.

It's amazing to have someone actually

watch this and not have to actually deal with

viewing it myself because I did not want to hear any of the content of it, but I kind of figured it would be like, oh, textiles.

I'm kind of disappointed because of,

you know, because it was Kennedy.

I mean, was he at least any good at it, Jeffy?

Look, it would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos, Glenn.

A partisan politics, but for them,

dignity isn't something you're born with, but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size.

Wow.

Oh, because the Democrats have never played any identity politics when it comes to celebrity.

They didn't have the first celebrity president or anything.

That's not how they promoted Barack Obama with his giant rallies or anything like that.

No, this is all new.

This is only

Donald Trump, a brand new thing for Republicans.

So

what else did he talk about?

Look, they're turning American life into a zero-sum game, Glenn, where in order to win, another must lose, where we can guarantee America's safety if we slash our safety net.

Coal miners or single moms.

You know, can I just ask a question?

Is it like Jeffy even watched this, or is he just quoting everything?

It does sort of feel like potentially Jeffy,

well, he certainly is.

He definitely, he definitely, I think he did, I can say this.

Yeah.

He definitely saw the video of it.

I'm sensing from as we talk to him.

I'm getting he definitely saw the video.

I didn't see the video of it.

Well, look.

Well, I mean, I...

We choose an economy strong enough to boast record stock prices and brave enough to admit the top CEOs making 300 times the average worker is not right, Glenn.

Right.

You know that.

Right.

And I'd just like to say to all the dreamers, let me be clear.

Look in the camera when you say that, will you?

Just like to say to all this.

Just this camera over here.

This camera here?

Yeah.

I'd like to just say to all the dreamers,

no, he did not.

No, he did not.

Oh, you want to talk about pandering?

He did not.

He actually went to, so you're saying he, this is amazing.

He actually went into, broke into the Spanish to pander even more to the dreamers, which again, we already found out in the Trump part of the speech that saying that Americans can be dreamers too was incredibly offensive and now apparently so offensive that they had to double pander to the Hispanic audience by actually breaking into.

I just don't like it.

I do have to point out

that last night, I mean,

I saw a little bit of it this morning.

I didn't watch the whole thing, but

it was like Joe Kennedy had a chapstick accident.

Did you notice that, Jeffy?

Do you think people...

I don't think anybody noticed.

I think everybody heard the words that he said about proudly marching together,

thousands deep in the streets of Vegas, Philadelphia, Nashville.

I think they all heard that.

They paid, I mean, looks,

you're not supposed to pay attention.

Well, I didn't.

It seems like when people quote Joe Kennedy's words,

they tend to have a little bit

of a, I don't know if I would call it an accident, but they seem to have an issue with chapstick when they quote his words.

Jeffy,

did you see any of that?

I did not.

I mean, look,

politicians can be cheered for the promises they make.

Our country will be judged by the promises we're doing.

Jeffy, thank you so much.

It's been great to have you.

You build a wall.

We'll tear it down.

All right.

I'll say this.

I wouldn't normally recommend people view a Jeffy segment

instead of just listening.

This is

number two.

Thank you for the update.

You're welcome.

Happy to do it.

Very good.

Thank you, Joe.

Now, if you think that you may have missed some of that, we just gave you the information, so we fulfilled our obligation here.

But there might have been a little mocking going on visually.

It might be possible.

Visually, a little bit of mocking.

You look great though, Jeffy.

You look great.

So seriously, the chapstick thing, what happened?

It just started spreading all over his face until it was like in clumps.

It seemed to get actually worse.

It did.

At first, I thought, is he like drooling?

Is it spittle?

What did it do?

No one heard a word he said.

No,

the entire country just

that they left it.

That is what happens.

When something, because this happened once to Ted Cruz.

Remember this?

During one of the debates, he had a little bit of spittle

on his lip, and he was having a great debate at the time.

He had that little white spittle.

And that was it.

Yeah.

Remember, what was his name?

Bobby Jindal.

Bobby Jindal.

Bobby Jindal, he had a drink of water.

Oh, and that was Marco Rubio.

Oh, that was Marco Rubio.

Jindal was sweating and stumbling.

Oh, man.

Yeah, that's right.

That was right.

Not that I remember.

I minimized the Bobby Jindal.

Thank you, Jeffy.

I appreciate it.

Hey, by the way, what did you think of this?

Did you watch the speech?

I did.

What'd you think?

I thought it was pretty darn good.

Yeah.

You know, he pulled it off.

He stayed strong, focused through it.

You know, he slowed down a little bit.

I thought that was

the best speech I've ever heard him give.

You know, one person called last night.

We were broadcasting it on Blaze Radio Network, and they reminded us that it was, you know, pretty humble for Trump.

There wasn't a lot of eyes.

It was all about the country.

It was all about us.

I mean, it was pretty strange.

He hit exactly the right tone.

And if you're, you know, they're

look, if you're for a job, I mean, the African caucus, the African-American caucus gave him no credit.

They looked like radicals.

The other Democrats of the other caucus gave him nothing.

It was terrible.

I'm not saying I'm having a difficult time

taking you seriously right now, but there's a little, there's a small part of me that's having

to talk to him like this.

I've never taken him seriously.

So

it doesn't change.

Thanks, Jeffy.

I appreciate it.

It was awesome.

Sorry.

Yeah, that was.

He goes all in on that stuff, man.

Jeffy's the man.

He's got about six inches of Vaseline on his face now.

Very similar to Joe Kennedy.

Oil prices are going up from the amount of Vaseline used in the last few minutes.

That's one we got to put that on Facebook and Twitter today.

You'll need to see that one.

We also have a bunch of audio we need to get to at some point

from the actual speech.

Let's go through some of it now.

Tonight at 5 o'clock, we are going to go through a few things.

One,

were you...

Am I alone in the way I felt?

I mean, don't get me wrong.

I loved this speech.

I was was blown away by it.

I thought it was the best speech he's ever given.

I think it's one of the best speeches politically I've heard in a long time.

He hit Barack Obama.

I think Barack Obama will feel like he hit him in the face for 45 minutes.

But that wasn't

his intent.

It was just the opposite of Barack Obama.

Yeah, so much more effective than calling Barack Obama a name or saying

there was nothing of that.

It was just a repudiation

of everything he did.

And

it was amazingly satisfying.

He got into spending, which is over $2 trillion of spending,

which I am absolutely not for.

However, what was amazing to me was the Democrats, they were given everything they say they want.

I mean, the only thing he didn't say was, and you know what?

Free universal education.

I mean, it was.

And they wouldn't have clapped for that.

And they wouldn't have clapped.

It made them look so radical, I think, to the average person.

46% of Democrats thought this was a really good speech, approved of it.

Yeah, 43, I believe, of course.

But that's incredibly high for somebody like this.

For Trump, especially.

Oh, my gosh.

97% of Republicans.

But the overall, 75% approval for a speech like that is incredibly high.

That's big.

For this guy.

That's huge.

It's really big for anybody, though.

Yes.

I mean, even the highly praised by the media Barack Obama speeches didn't have 75% approval ratings typically.

So I really liked the speech all the way through.

I like the way he handled it, and I can praise him not for the policies, but for what he was trying to do and reaching out to the left, but they wanted no part of it.

It was remarkable.

But am I the only one?

Because I haven't heard anybody else say this today.

I was really freaked out by the war thing.

Yeah,

you brought that up, and I know you were going to go over this today at 5 p.m., really dissecting it because It's kind of like new war and classic war.

You don't want classic war coming back.

Like, new coke, classic coke.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's stay with the new war.

And I'm going to compare because this is not the same.

This is not what people my age have lived through.

If we go to war with North Korea, it'll probably be much more like World War II.

Don't want to do it.

And it's really concerning.

You didn't pick up that vibe.

You know, I mean, I was not surprised to to see him hit North Korea.

Obviously, it's been a big topic.

And it was right after the ISIS

section, so it felt like there was a natural flow to it.

I mean, you know, if you think about it, I didn't pick it up at the time, but as you laid out the case, and I know you're going to do that again at five tonight on the Blaze,

not only did he focus on it, he used very, I think, precise language.

Precise.

And then he illustrated it emotionally with multiple guests to show you how bad North Korea really is.

I mean, it's one thing to to

do the

guy on the crutches because

that was emotional and it was really powerful.

And if you're my age, it reminds you of the Cold War.

And he was sending a message to the people who lived through the Cold War.

This hasn't stopped.

This evil is still here.

And then with the family of, you know, the Warm Beer family, whose son went over,

was

arrested on a stupid charge of taking something off of a bulletin board that he wanted to keep as a souvenir.

They charged him as an enemy of the state.

They tortured him for a year, dumped his body over here in the United States, and he died a few days later.

That one,

quite honestly,

that is act of war stuff.

And the way it was presented last night was: look, here's the evil, and here's what they did to us.

It was, I'm hoping that it it is

posturing for North Korea, but it is also, historically speaking, that feels like laying the foundation of, we're going for these guys.

We're going for war.

You felt like it was like an axis of evil type of case, right?

Like he's laying out.

Yeah, not even an axis of evil.

This is an evil empire.

It was Reagan's evil empire speech, which I support.

And I support what Donald Trump did.

You know, I've always said said I want a president with a twitchy eye,

which means I want somebody that

the foes don't know.

This guy could do it.

The problem is, Donald Trump has like two twitchy eyes and like a twitchy leg.

I think he has La Presso's leg syndrome, too.

So nobody knows exactly what he's going to do.

So it makes me a little nervous.

If he's just doing this to scare North Korea, which is the case I'm going to lay out tonight,

that's good.

And

he does that really well.

But there is also a chance that we are preparing for war, and I'm going to also lay out the case tonight.

That is an entirely different thing than the wars we have seen in the last 30 or 40 years.

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Glenn Beck.

Have you read anywhere about the congressman that walked out on the speech last night?

I mean, do you remember the hoopla around Joe Wilson when he said, You lie?

And as it turns out, a couple years later, it's true, he did lie.

But you remember how you don't do, you don't treat the president of the United States this way?

How about the first lady?

Did anybody notice that the Democrats sat on their hands for the first lady?

I mean, it's not like, you know, and you shouldn't do this with anyone, but I mean, Hillary Clinton, you could say, became partisan because she got involved in healthcare and everything else.

Melania Trump is an innocent bystander here.

I don't think she wanted to.

She didn't aspire to be first lady.

She's the first lady.

Can you treat her with respect?

You can't even applaud her?

That's really just despicable.

The Democrats last night, at least in my view, blew it,

if I may quote the president, bigly.

Last night, if you were a Democrat and you heard the first part of the speech, and I don't mean like a crazy, you know,

I'm out in the street marching every, I just mean a regular person.

You know, you're just, you don't vote for the Republicans, but, you know,

and you heard that Donald Trump last night, who sounded reasoned and reasonable.

You may not have liked the first 45 minutes because maybe you're politics.

But when he started in on the gravy train of, hey, I've got four pillars on reform for our borders.

And the first one is DACA and a path to citizenship, not securing the border, path to citizenship.

And beyond DACA.

I mean, that's, remember, DACA

is not a path to citizenship.

It's just legal status.

This is actually going beyond DACA.

When you heard that, when you heard that there was

the lowest unemployment rating for

African Americans and the camera went on the black caucus and they all were sitting on their hands,

you realized

these guys are not in touch with me at all.

These are radicals.

Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, keep going.

You are destroying middle American Democrats.

Glenn Beck, Mercury.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

If I had access to the Oval Office today, I would walk in and say, Mr.

President, you know exactly who I am and how I feel about you.

Wow.

That was one of the best speeches I think a president has given in a long time.

I'd like to work with you on the teleprompter thing just a little bit.

And I really want to kiss the feet of the writer of this.

It was really good.

It connected.

70% of it is something that I've waited to hear for a long time, and it was delivered well for him.

30%.

The first pillar is a path to citizenship,

not the border security.

I want you to hear what he said last night in case you missed it.

The first pillar of our framework generously offers a path to citizenship for 1.8 million illegal immigrants who were brought here by their parents at a young age.

That covers

almost three times more people than the previous administration covered.

Under our plan, those who meet education and work requirements and show show good moral character will be able to become full citizens of the United States over a 12-year period.

The second pillar fully secures the border.

That means building a great wall on the southern border and it means hiring more heroes like CJ to keep our communities safe.

Crucially, our plan closes the terrible loopholes exploited by criminals and terrorists to enter our country and it finally ends the horrible and dangerous practice of catch and release.

The third pillar ends the Visa Lottery, a program that randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of American people.

It's time to begin moving toward a merit-based immigration system, one that admits people who are skilled, who want to work, who will contribute to our society, and who will love and respect our country.

The fourth and final pillar protects the nuclear family by ending chain migration.

Okay.

So you notice his eyes went right over to the left when he said citizenship.

That was a surprise for them.

That should have taken them, they should have stood up.

If their principle really was trying to get this passed, they should have stood up and cheered because

no other Republican would have ever suggested that that

has the support of the right.

Can you imagine?

Imagine if Ted Cruz would have said that, Marco Rubio.

Imagine what talk radio would be saying today.

Imagine that.

We don't have to imagine it.

They did say those things.

Right.

So now, today, you have a president who is still being supported.

You have your little gift in exchange for what we want.

Nobody's ever suggested this before.

And you sat on your hands?

Unbelievable.

Pat Gray is joining us.

They sat on their hands for we need to put America first.

They didn't clap.

They didn't get up.

They didn't do anything.

I want to put America first from now on.

And they're like, oh, I don't want America first.

I can't go along with anything more than 33rd.

America first.

No.

Well, how about we work hard in getting us, you know, 24th in math?

How can you not applaud for America first?

What is the downside of that?

It looked really bad.

It's actually your responsibility, right, as a representative to treat.

I mean, you know, there's a little bit of connotation with that phrase going back historically.

I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I shouldn't.

They don't deserve it.

It's not what I think the majority were thinking.

But I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on America first.

But it falls apart quickly.

Yeah, I'm not going to because look at what they, I mean, you gave him the path to citizenship, which you've been yelling about for years and years and years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Didn't like that either.

Well, what is it you want?

They didn't stand up.

What you want.

The Black Caucus did not even clap when he said low unemployment for blacks.

The lowest in recorded history.

Yeah.

That is quite an accomplishment.

I don't care who made it.

That's good news.

Not to them.

I know.

It was remarkable.

Principles is a great thing to focus on here because you're right.

If their principle was to actually help out people who are on DACA, help out dreamers, help out people who want to become citizens.

I mean, go back in history.

What have Republicans been beaten up on and lost

their potential politically for much less than this.

Oh, yeah.

You know, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush,

Lindsey Graham, John McCain,

none of them suggested what Trump suggested.

If Jeb Bush would have won the presidency, A, it would have been even a weirder parallel universe.

But if he would have won the presidency, let me tell you this: man, if he gave that part of that speech at the State of the Union last night, if it was Jeb Bush, oh my gosh, it would be an,

I mean, there might be riots in the streets with Republicans.

And this is why it's so clear they don't care about these immigrants at all.

The left does not care about them.

If they cared about them, they could take advantage of this.

Trump is giving a, I think, a legitimate attempt at saying, look, I understand you guys want this done.

I want the border wall done.

I want a couple of changes to tighten up the immigration system.

I will give, he's saying, I will give you your side of this.

I'll just give it to you.

You give us our side.

And you give us at least part of what we want.

Yeah.

And they won't even engage.

And here's, here's what's amazing.

The strategic error in that was remarkable.

Just remarkable.

Think of the power they would have had if they would have gone on.

This speech has a 70% approval rating.

75, yeah.

75.

If they would have got up last night on just the first one, just the first one.

you don't have to stand up for all three pillars, just the first one,

and then been on today and said, well, I have a problem with the first, the, you know, the second, third, and fourth pillar, but we can get that at the negotiating table.

It was, you know, it was great of the president to give us this.

You then at least have the illusion of fairness and I'm willing to work together.

You want to talk about a do-nothing Congress.

This is a sit-on-your-hands Congress.

This is a I'm not even showing up Congress.

Pat, how do you balance the two sides of this speech, which, if you define it this way, one, presentation, a positive vision of America, a lot of legitimate accomplishments, some real success and results, and balance that against some policy prescriptions for the future, including $2 trillion and mass amnesty and citizenship and

family leave care and infrastructure.

And I mean, you

just take this as a positive moment of the presidency or do you worry about what he's suggesting?

No, I'm worried about what he's suggesting.

This has been the problem with this president from the beginning is, you know, he's not a true conservative.

So during the first year, we were actually pleasantly surprised that most of his policies seemed to be the things he got done were pretty much conservative.

But now in year two, he's starting to show you the rest of his agenda, which includes all the things you mentioned.

And that's what we were afraid of in the beginning.

And that's why I wasn't a huge Trump supporter from the start.

But for Democrats not to come along on this, they could have big wins right now.

They could have huge wins.

They are so hurting their votes.

He is like-minded with them on many issues.

And for them to just discount all of that because of their sheer unadulterated hatred for the man, really bad politically, I think.

I have a percolating theory here on the best way to get conservative things out of the Trump White House.

And I don't know that I necessarily have proved this out yet, but I think there's a theory here.

There's something here, which is part one, Donald Trump suggests something liberal.

This is how you get conservative stuff out of the White House.

Part one, Donald Trump

announces he wants to do something that's liberal.

Part two, the Democrats being the awful human beings that they are in most cases that are in Congress, no matter what he said, even if it's something really liberal that they're supposed to like, they treat him like he's Hitler.

And so, in response from being treated like he was Hitler, he gets so pissed off, he goes the opposite direction and gets something really conservative done.

That could actually happen.

I mean, it's not an important thing.

It's happened, I feel like, with some of these things where there's been this trial balloon of something liberal.

The liberals react like maniacs.

And then on the other side, he's like, you know what?

You're not getting any of that.

In fact, we're going 20 steps the other direction.

Yeah,

I thought it was an important moment when his eyes shifted.

His eyes shifted over to the left

or his right,

and he looked over at the Democrats and he looked on the word

path to citizenship.

Path to citizenship.

They might have expected, I'll give you DACA.

And he looked over like, try this one on for size.

I'm giving a path to citizenship.

And he looked over to

that was a,

I believe that donald trump is the kind of guy who he does not offer candy and flowers very often he is a stick guy not a sugar guy he offered sugar last night and they rejected him and quite honestly um acted wildly inappropriate on the things they should have loved

he usually doesn't go for sugar a second time he usually goes for a stick and and honestly democrats you are blowing it because you could

get these things.

I know, good.

You could A, get these things and B, you could look like you're working together.

You are going to go down as a party that is out of step with about 40% of your base.

You know, they keep saying, well, you know, Donald Trump only has 37%

support of the country.

Well, how much?

What is the support with conservatives?

About 70?

Yeah, 70 or 80.

Okay, 70 or 80.

So Donald Trump is out of step with about 20% of conservatives.

43% last night said that was a really good speech of Democrats.

You are out of step with more of your base than he is out of step with.

That's pretty remarkable.

You better wake up because the Democrat in the middle of the country doesn't hate God, doesn't hate the country, you know, is not for all of this, you know, 93 gender crap.

They're not there.

That's not who they are, and they're not going there.

And then the Democrats have the nerve to trot out a Kennedy for the rebuttal.

Oh, my gosh.

A Kennedy, whose grandson,

the grandson of

the secretary of his grandfather was Mary Joe Copechny.

So it was weird that we had chapstick aquitic last night.

I called police.

That is the line of the day.

I called police right away.

I didn't wait 10 hours.

He's drowning in chapstick.

Please, help him.

Help him now.

Thank you, Pat.

Don't forget these cookies, Pat, because I'll eat all of them.

Please.

I mean, I'll eat this one too.

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Yeah.

Glenn back.

A couple of things, one more important than the other.

A,

the audacity of Melania Trump to wear white in January last night.

How dare?

Where's the coverage on this?

Where's the coverage on this?

I mean, Vanity Fair's got to get on this.

Somebody's got to get on this quickly.

But

there is some bad news today.

A GOP retreat was happening.

Yeah.

And all of the representatives got onto a train.

Not all of them, but many of them got onto a train.

The train struck a garbage truck.

No word on

why the garbage truck was there, how that accident happened, but several people were hurt.

No official word on injuries yet, though it seems like there's several representatives that were on the train that have tweeted they're okay, you know, but there are some injuries.

It does look like the truck did not make out well in that battle, which technology is.

Usually in a train versus truck battle, the train usually wins.

Yeah.

There are some pictures of the truck, and there is a lot of garbage all over the place.

And

not a truck?

Yeah, not a lot of truck.

Is there any

clue as to why the garbage truck is...

I mean, is there a possibility that

there's something other than just a truck made a big mistake?

Yeah.

Nothing I've seen suggested yet.

You know, I mean, it doesn't seem like it was anything.

Although it's obviously, you know, something you want to look into whenever any of these things happen, but it doesn't seem to be anything so far, at least, that would lead you to believe anything other than a bad bad accident.

And they're treating apparently the driver of the truck.

He lived?

Well, I don't know.

I mean,

you treat them and hope that maybe he's still alive at some level.

Well, you're not treating them if they're dead.

Yeah, but you are going to do everything you can, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And also, I will say it's probably a representative word from 100 yards away, so they're not going to know the fact.

But still, it's a prayers for everybody

and their family.

It's scary.

It's scary, especially with the last year of

GOP.

That's why I thought of it.

I mean, I wouldn't have thought of that you know, before the shooting last year

over the summer.

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Mercury.