Hegseth vs. The Impeachment Democrats

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We've got Glenn Beck is coming on. We're going to talk about that Van Jones clip where the PSYOP that was run on the American people to. 00:01:59 Speaker 2: I don't know, convince them over social media that Democrats had any answers on affordability. They don't. Democrats always make everything less affordable. So we got every blue state. Glenn Beck is going to join us for that. Then we've got the comedian Rob Schneider. This Dave Chappelle thing just has so many legs and so many tentacles, too. So we're going to dive into that with Rob Schneider. Then we have Senator Rick Scott joining the show. And we're going to talk about. What's going on in the Senate? A lot of Thune drama, Tim Burchett drama. Who's going to be running that caucus drama? I mean, there's a lot going on, and we have eight weeks to put our pedal to the metal and make sure things get done and the president's agenda gets passed and really the base's agenda, namely no amnesty. Got a lot of judges that need to get approved as well, so lots to get to. But this morning, what is really popping off is the impeachment effort that is being mounted against Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War. Now, we talked about this briefly last week. Heads need to roll. We understand that. A lot of you felt that nobody's head should roll. But that day, the day we had that show, within, I think, a couple hours, Susie Wiles was out as Chief of Staff. So, you know, I understand there's a lot of people in this audience that didn't want to see that. They felt it was a show of weakness. to the Democrats, but I. 00:03:16 Speaker 4: Think people changed their, I think people were fine seeing Susie Wiles go when they saw Stephen Miller. 00:03:20 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:03:20 Speaker 2: I think people were very, I think it was less of an anti Susie thing and more of a pro Stephen thing. 00:03:26 Speaker 4: Yeah, but exactly. So I think as long as they're scared, what people are really saying when they say don't fire anyone is they're scared of amnesty. They're scared of the administration giving into the left, accommodating the left. And as long as that is not happening, um, I think they're okay with personnel changes. 00:03:45 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:03:45 Speaker 4: As long as they feel that the administration is not diverting from its purpose. 00:03:48 Speaker 2: Right. And I think there's– listen, President Trump floats this potential deal on immigration. There was a big clip, Ross Douthat, 60 Minutes, formerly of the New York Times, talking about maybe we can make a deal on immigration. That happened in the morning. Then later that day– so it was prerecorded. Later that day, he appoints Stephen Miller as chief of staff. And I think the base has a lot of faith in Stephen Miller. So that's one side of the aisle. The two names we floated were Susie and Pete Hegseth. And we understood this because a lot of people are talking about Pete Hegseth. Then Thomas Massey goes to the House yesterday and files formally, I believe, eight articles of impeachment. And this has become a whole thing. And I think what you're seeing, I think it's safe to say, is a rallying around the flag effect, especially with conservatives, and a rallying around Pete Hegseth, okay? Let's get right here. We'll get some clips on this to get you all up to speed. 00:04:47 Speaker 6: What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment. Time for one man's final days in Congress to try to do damage to this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who defend it. It's a farce and it's a stunt. 00:05:16 Speaker 7: And everybody knows it. 00:05:18 Speaker 2: He goes on to say that who you're really hurting is the warriors. And to say that if you execute on the president's orders, that you are going to then be punished and impeached. And I think that's probably a valid critique here. President Trump is standing by Secretary Hegseth Satnai. 00:05:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll stand by him. So even if he's impeached, you're going to keep him as your defense secretary? 00:05:38 Speaker 5: We won two wars. 00:05:39 Speaker 3: He was in charge. We all won. I had great people. 00:05:43 Speaker 5: You what? 00:05:44 Speaker 3: Massey says that he's carried out. Massey's a loser. Just like you're a loser at CNN. Just like your ratings are a loser. Massey is a loser. Stone cold loser. 00:05:56 Speaker 2: So so there I mean, listen, you know, I understand that there's a lot of love for Thomas Massey in certain quarters of the base. And there's a lot of anger, too. This is not to me even about that. The president is saying I'm going to stand by. Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. J.D. Vance has just given his point of view on it. I believe we have that image somewhere. But he's standing by the President, or by the Secretary of War. And guess who else is, interestingly enough? Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio says that Pete Hegseth's been fantastic. 00:06:32 Speaker 8: I don't know how anyone could argue that drug dealers trying to import poison into our country is not an imminent threat. It's a real and imminent threat. And it's been addressed. We've discussed Iran extensively and the threat they posed to the United States, not in the last year, since 1979, a threat that's grown. In the case of Nicolas Maduro, that was, in many cases, a law enforcement operation because he was a fugitive of American justice who was captured and brought to justice, and by the way, had the ancillary impact of also opening and paving the path for Venezuela to have a better future. 00:07:02 Speaker 3: So as I said, the. 00:07:05 Speaker 8: On all those things, not only did Pete execute on a direct order from the commander-in-chief when our Constitution is empowered and trusted with the job of keeping Americans safe, but they did it quite effectively on all those fronts. 00:07:18 Speaker 4: And then we do have Vance's tweet. This came up about 30 minutes ago. He says, has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The answer is absurd and the answer, the question is absurd and the answer is obviously not. Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy, but ultimately inconsequential. And the irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he is most correct. Repositioning our forces away from Europe and Ukraine... and reorganizing the general officer corps. This isn't about Iran. This is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon. I might disagree with J.D. Vance there. I think certainly in the case of Massey, he's probably heavily motivated by Iran, and I think a lot of others. But even then, it's important. Even if you disagree with the Iran conflict, which you and I both think it was a mistake to go in, but if you lay out the charges here, like they have eight charges, and some of them are just the fact that he did strikes on Iran at all. They're saying that is now basically a crime for you to have obeyed the president to do strikes on Iran, which the president absolutely has the power to do. They're trying to get him on stuff that's very dangerous. One of the impeachment charges is basically that he hasn't minimized civilian casualties in the exact correct way. And okay, we are a humane country. We should minimize civilian casualties. But once you go down that route, basically America cannot be a military power if any action you take is going to be second-guessed by someone coming in and deciding, you didn't dot every I and cross every T correctly for us to say you waged war in the absolute correct way. You should punish atrocities. But they're doing it in the sense like, oh, he didn't have the right amount of intel, and so they were reckless and they bombed the wrong thing. Once you do that, we can't have a military. 00:09:16 Speaker 2: We can't do strikes. Jonathan Turley is reviewing these, a law professor. He says, I'm reviewing the eight articles on the impeachment of Secretary Hegseth. In my view, six of the eight articles should be non-starters, including Iranian articles. Presidents including Clinton, Obama, and Biden have asserted the authority to commence such operations. So we're waiting on his assessment of the other two, but six of the eight seem like non-starters. So it's not just Pete Hegseth that is staring down the lawfare. It's basically everybody. All right. This is this guy, Robert Garcia. He's a congressman. And man, he's just he's showing all of the worst aspects of the Democrat Party. the far left really and they're emboldened so prepare to hear more of this kind of crap here he is telling dana bash about his tweet lawyer up right after tuesday night stop 16. 00:10:15 Speaker 9: Why are you going to investigate him do you think that he committed a crime. 00:10:18 Speaker 10: What we think is that Stephen Miller is the architect of this horrific, unjust policy happening across the country in the way that we are treating folks. Stephen Miller called Alex Purdy, as we know, an assassin. The way that he is going around creating immigration policy that separates families. that is causing people harm, that's creating a detention process where a few large companies are profiting. The unconstitutional detention of people, the way that folks are losing their due process rights, that has to be investigated. And so it does deserve oversight and investigation. 00:10:50 Speaker 5: Oversight and investigation. 00:10:52 Speaker 11: Do you think anything that he did was criminal? 00:10:55 Speaker 10: That is what's important is we believe that he's been at the center of actions that are unconstitutional, unjust and possibly illegal. 00:11:02 Speaker 3: So we're, of course, going to investigate that. 00:11:04 Speaker 2: Do you see that? He's unjust. He doesn't like it. All this stuff. And he goes, impossibly illegal, which means he has no idea what the hell he's talking about. Show me the man. I'll show you the crime. This is a fishing expedition that they are about to embark on. For all members of the Trump administration because they don't like certain things. They don't like policies. And then they go right in. And possibly illegal. 00:11:26 Speaker 4: Which I will say I'm getting– maybe this is a silly reason to be optimistic. But I think if we're worried about Democrats– This is half-baked. One of the best– it's half-baked. And also just if you want them to waste their time– and this is why we didn't necessarily like efforts to impeach Biden, for example. If you're just going to go and be holding votes and are they going to remove them from office? 00:11:45 Speaker 5: No. No. 00:11:46 Speaker 4: But they'll waste a lot of time on it. They'll grandstand in hearings. And what are they not doing if they're doing impeachments? 00:11:51 Speaker 2: They're not passing immigration crackdowns. 00:11:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, or not passing, yeah, amnesties. 00:11:56 Speaker 2: Save America Act. 00:11:57 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:11:58 Speaker 2: So here, I just want you to get a better feel for this Robert Garcia guy. I mean, just how awful these people are. Stop 14. 00:12:06 Speaker 10: We can't forget about these folks that are causing harm. Like, you know, I think it's like, I mean, maybe it's because I'm like, I'm gay, but like, you know, like. 00:12:16 Speaker 2: Like, pettiness is a thing. 00:12:18 Speaker 4: Like, I am. 00:12:22 Speaker 5: I'm mad. 00:12:24 Speaker 2: He said it, not me. So he is justifying his own pettiness because he's a gay man. 00:12:29 Speaker 4: Yeah, and pettiness does appeal to people in politics. I mean, let's be frank. There's a lot of things the right has wanted that we could say have been a little petty. A little petty. I will be frank. I think stuff that hurt us in these midterms was downstream of that. 00:12:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. 00:12:43 Speaker 4: If you just kept... eye on the ball on those big issues that won you 2024, we'd be in a better position. 00:12:50 Speaker 2: Listen, I, I understand everybody wants to talk about 2028. Everybody wants the horse race, the palace intrigue, JD, Marco DeSantis, Yunkin, Ted Cruz, I guess is thrown in that mix as well. I will just have to say that one of the things that I'm contemplating, one of the things that I'm mulling over in my thought process, as we move into 2028 is that they're, It has to be certain changes. There has to be, I think, a change of aesthetics in some ways. The way that this pettiness angle, when you see it on somebody like Congressman Garcia, and I use Congressman very lightly there. It's doing a whole lot of heavy lifting. 00:13:30 Speaker 4: With a great deal of pain, like passing a kidney stone. 00:13:34 Speaker 2: When you see that pettiness, it doesn't come off well at all. I don't like that man. Yeah, he gets cheers from this very insular person. far left you know by the way Jennifer Welch spoke at that same event so yeah there's a certain contingent for that sure that shares that but I don't think the American people do I don't think independents do I don't think moderates on either side see that and go I like the state of my politics in America and we have to also internalize that message and the reason I bring out the horse race is because I have to give high marks I know I don't want to get like a billion emails on this But something that DeSantis said that I think is actually resonating is when he talked about getting back to statesmanship, getting back to this being above reproach. And, you know, you see all these stories about corruption or insider dealing, and it grosses people out. And whatever this movement becomes next, and I think our ideas are very good. Our ideas are still winning ideas and we need to make sure that we don't jettison them for amnesty. But whatever it becomes from a messaging standpoint, from an aesthetic standpoint, has to embrace the fact that our side genuinely are the good guys and we need to live like that. We need to choose people that are actually, you know, they have integrity and they don't insider deal and they don't, take advantage of this petty politics. We have to rise above. And I think there is a deep appetite. One of the things that I've realized from this election is the depth of that appetite for true statesmanship. We want to be the city on a hill, the shining city on a hill. We want to believe that America has integrity and goodness and that our people are good. And the only way to do that is to be good, is to pick people that are good and to rise above some of this crap. Because Rep Garcia represents the absolute worst of our politics. He doesn't even know if anything's illegal. He just wants to be petty. And I think that's a huge turnoff. And if that's what the Democrats have. Good luck. These next two years are not going to impress anybody. They don't have ideas. 00:15:56 Speaker 4: If I mean, if politics in the U.S. just becomes four year cycles of getting revenge for the previous four years. There are countries that get stuck in cycles like that. We looked at Brazil. Brazil's become a lot like that. Just very nasty. We get a turn, you get a turn, and it makes the elections... It encourages all those things we're worried about, like election fraud. So was there suspicious stuff in Brazil? Well, they had every incentive to do it because everyone believes I'm going to prison for life if I lose this contest. It's a breakdown of what makes our system work. 00:16:28 Speaker 2: Now, that doesn't mean I don't want to see Anthony Fauci held accountable. That doesn't mean that there aren't certain things where Yeah, we really do need to hold people accountable so they don't do it again. I mean, it's as simple as that. But this pettiness is gross and it's a massive turnoff. I think it's a massive turnoff for independents. So please keep yammering about Representative Garcia. Keep talking crap. Keep embracing people like Jennifer Welch who glorify political assassination. I don't believe that the American people are with you. I don't believe that's where we are as a nation. I believe there's a certain contingent. 00:17:06 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:17:06 Speaker 2: And it's a big contingent. And it and it terrifies me, actually, that the contingent is that big. But I don't think it's enough to win elections. I don't think it's enough to win the White House in 2028. And so we have to be above that. We have to present something different to the American people. I'm telling you, my appetite is like 10 out of 10 for silent operators that are competent, that have integrity. and that manage things well, and that have the right ideas. Because our ideas are still the right ideas. If you've ever skipped the doctor because you couldn't afford it, you need to hear this. 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I was like, gas prices are high, but Joe Biden had even higher gas prices. But Obama had even higher gas prices. And there was a huge, huge push on the affordability message. It just there's something that wasn't right about it. And we could all figure it out because it was it doesn't make any sense. But it's vibes. It's vibes, right? Oh, it's the it's Republicans fault for affordability. And candidly, they had a good hook Iran. That was like something you could point to directly. contributing to gas prices. And they, boy oh boy, they worked it. Here's Van Jones telling you about the American Accountability Network and taking the veil away, pulling the curtain back on what they were really up to, sought for. 00:19:36 Speaker 11: How did we win the narrative on affordability? Were they just these nice little Democrats out there running for office and going to, no. The Republicans never figured out what we were doing. There's something called the American Accountability Network. Tens of thousands of online humans, not bots, coordinated to make the affordability message a winning message online. 32.5 million people hit on Instagram every day. 88.8 million hit on Facebook. Twitter X every single day. And 185 million Facebook hits every single day. 00:20:16 Speaker 1: They were saying you need to elect Democrats to deal with this. 00:20:19 Speaker 11: Driving the kitchen table affordability message and tying that to Democrats on a positive and Republicans on a negative. They couldn't get any traction on these cultural war issues anymore because we figured out how to get around all that. 00:20:33 Speaker 2: Joining us now is the great Glenn Beck. He's the founder of The Blaze Torch. He's a great philanthropist. People don't really realize how great of a philanthropist you are, Glenn Beck. Digital disruptor, truth teller, narrator of meaning. It's good to see you, my friend. I saw you reacting to this. I saw you reacting to this Van Jones clip. Break it down for us. 00:20:56 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let's just say this. He's on CNN as a commentator. 00:21:00 Speaker 12: So now he is put into question... Everything he's ever said as a commentator. Were you commentating on this? Because you had information about affordability. Did you ever bring to the table affordability? Because if you did, that's now we know all propaganda. Because you and the Democrats were working hard to convince people that their reality was not reality. that what's really happening in the economy, listen to this. Friday, National Alliance to End Homelessness estimated America's homeless population fell 6.7%, second straight year of decline. 00:21:46 Speaker 3: New York Times reported that. 00:21:48 Speaker 12: Same morning, jobs report 165,000 new jobs, more than doubled what economists expected. 00:21:54 Speaker 3: Unemployment down to 4.1% in September. 00:21:57 Speaker 12: Census Bureau put the official poverty rate at 10.2%, lowest since they started counting in 1959. 00:22:05 Speaker 5: Wow. 00:22:06 Speaker 12: Medium household income, record high. Gas has been falling for two weeks now. Day after the election, oil dropped nearly 9% in a single day. 00:22:15 Speaker 3: So that's the truth. Those are the stats. That's the truth. 00:22:21 Speaker 12: And I know people's perception is the reality, but how much of that perception was now, do we, we now know was coordinated as a lie. So people were making decisions on, I want my life to get better. I want the economy to get better. I want my pay to get better. I want my job to get better. I want all these things to get better and nothing's happening. 00:22:46 Speaker 3: Well, yes, it was. All kinds of things were happening. 00:22:49 Speaker 12: All good things, record level good things were And Van Jones just announces that we conned the American people. 00:23:01 Speaker 5: Wow. 00:23:02 Speaker 3: I mean, to me, that's disgusting. It's disgusting. 00:23:07 Speaker 12: I don't mind winning or losing on facts. I don't mind having the argument. You could have the argument of, you know. 00:23:15 Speaker 3: And we did. 00:23:16 Speaker 12: We had the argument on the air. Accountability is something people are feeling mainly at the gas pump. But it's not as bad as everybody. 00:23:24 Speaker 3: Says it is. 00:23:24 Speaker 2: Well, no, no, no. 00:23:26 Speaker 12: It is if it's constantly being reinforced through propaganda and lies. I mean, it's practically, at this point, mind control. These are the people that gave us nudge. This is the worst. 00:23:45 Speaker 12: Kind of propaganda that is taking real people who want their lives to get better and filling their head with lies, lies, to get them to vote against their own interests. 00:23:59 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:24:00 Speaker 2: Well, you know who's been speaking out about this as well is Victor Davis Hanson. He's talking about how good the economy actually is and is going to get supercharged probably in the next two years if Democrats don't succeed in Screwing it up, frankly, and our own side. We could screw it up, too. But right now the table is set, Glenn, for this incredible economic boon over the next two years. 00:24:23 Speaker 5: I know. 00:24:23 Speaker 2: What's fascinating to me, though, and this is an open question, were the oil markets getting manipulated? I think this is something we should ask because. 00:24:33 Speaker 5: No, I don't. 00:24:36 Speaker 2: Go ahead. I was going to build up both sides of that. But yes, absolutely. 00:24:40 Speaker 11: Go ahead. 00:24:40 Speaker 4: No, go ahead. 00:24:41 Speaker 3: Go ahead. 00:24:41 Speaker 5: Go. 00:24:42 Speaker 2: I mean, listen, on some level, it makes sense, right? The Republicans lose. The feeling is that the Iran war has lost popular support. So they assume that Iran's going to come to an end. So the markets drop. That makes sense to me. But we kept hearing that the shipments out of the Strait of Hormuz were coming, right? They were they just had to make their way around the world, dock at the, at the port, get shipped to a refinery. That was going to take some time to start seeing that downward pressure on gas prices. So I was, I was waiting for the price to drop and day after the election, they drop. I mean, I see it all over Phoenix right now. 00:25:18 Speaker 12: I will tell you the day after the election oil dropped 9%, but the gas price has dropped for the last 10 days. So that's, It's only been seven days since the election. So it was already dropping. And this is exactly what Donald Trump said would happen. And it comes from several different things. And it's not because of the Democratic election. 00:25:42 Speaker 3: It's not. 00:25:43 Speaker 12: I mean, look at what Iran did. You want to say, oh, well, things are more secure. Did you hear what France came out and said today about the freezers? 00:25:53 Speaker 8: No. 00:25:53 Speaker 3: So- So there was somebody that hacked. 00:25:56 Speaker 12: In and it was like a billion and a half dollars worth of meat and food had to be destroyed because somebody hacked into the freezers in all of the supermarkets and put them in defrost as soon as the store closed. 00:26:11 Speaker 3: So they woke up. 00:26:12 Speaker 12: Some of these refrigerators and freezers were at 170 degrees. And so it was all spoiled. All that food was spoiled. billion and a half dollars overnight had to be thrown out um france just came out today and said that. 00:26:29 Speaker 3: Was a hack by iran jeez now. 00:26:34 Speaker 12: Wait a minute so wait things are getting better with iran they're now hacking food in europe they're now they're they're trying to expand the war. 00:26:47 Speaker 2: Well and where was where where Right. 00:26:49 Speaker 12: And where was where was France when we said, hey, this could happen to you. 00:26:54 Speaker 3: This could be really bad. 00:26:55 Speaker 12: I mean, France was France did everything they could to say we're not on America's side. 00:27:01 Speaker 3: They're still paying the. 00:27:02 Speaker 4: Price from the start. That's been I think the strongest argument in favor of pursuing this war is Iran has had like a school shooter level approach to this conflict in terms we struck them. And so they lobbed missiles at. the UAE, Saudi Arabia, like, countries not even having U.S. forces in them, like Jordan. 00:27:20 Speaker 5: Correct. 00:27:20 Speaker 4: And then now they're roping in France. Like, they will suck everyone in, and that's kind of the strongest argument, that this is not a nation we can reasonably negotiate with. 00:27:30 Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's not. And the gas prices were going to come down. 00:27:35 Speaker 12: I mean, this summer, I was over in Europe and the Middle East, and I met with three different prime ministers. 00:27:42 Speaker 11: And. 00:27:44 Speaker 12: All of them talked about the war, talked about the price of oil, what Trump was building. Not all of them were happy about how he was basically saying that the Western hemisphere is gonna be the center of the world, but they understood what he was doing. And when we talked about the war, all of them said, it's about to end because he's crushing them. And if he sticks to the economic sanctions, He's crushing them, and you will see that fall apart, but it won't be until after the election. So everybody knew what was going on. Everybody knew, but again, it was a coordinated effort to convince people that that's not true because they're so craven for power. 00:28:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that where we started this, Glenn, is this propaganda network that Van Jones just admitted to. And they can't help themselves. They want the glory. They want, they want. 00:28:43 Speaker 3: The, the, uh, he said it with glee. 00:28:46 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:28:47 Speaker 2: He, he wanted, he wants to be patted on the back for the fact that he has been a propagandist on that network, lying to people for months and completely complicit, engaged, involved behind the scenes. Big sigh. I, I, I. 00:29:06 Speaker 12: Have to tell you, if I were somebody who voted either for Republican or Democrat, but this time I voted for them because of the affordability and I found that out, I would be pissed off. 00:29:17 Speaker 3: You lied to me. You manipulated me. 00:29:21 Speaker 2: They're in on it. They just want power. They hate Trump that much. Glenn, I got to go through something with you. I know you've seen this video. Jennifer Welch saga. She's trying to blame me and Turning Point for this advertiser boycott or whatever. She's lost like 25 sponsors because she was very... venomous and very ghoulish, and I think people had just had enough. And so I could let you respond to that, but it's happening. I did not coordinate it. I did not organize it. I just posted about when companies were leaving, but she's coming after us. Anyway, so she's now trying to get people to donate to her, buy her book. And this is a funny one, but birds of a feather. And I'll explain what I mean. Sod 11. 00:30:07 Speaker 14: And there's one thing I want to pull up regarding our mass cancellation from Turning Point. 00:30:12 Speaker 13: Yes, the mass cancellation. They've harassed our advertisers. And sadly, some of the advertisers have caved. But we still have other advertisers. And we're still stand-ins. 00:30:26 Speaker 9: So the. 00:30:27 Speaker 14: Manokwa Brewing Company tagged us on a post on Instagram and Facebook. And they said, hey, I've had it podcast. Charlie, these are their words. Charlie Kirk was an awful human being. And everybody who's not in a cult or a paid influencer on the right realizes that. We're sorry you've lost a few sponsors because you laughed at a joke about the racist jerk. We probably don't have as much money as the sponsors you lost, but we would love to step in and partner with you if you'll have us. 00:30:54 Speaker 3: How sweet is that? 00:30:55 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:30:57 Speaker 2: Well, Glenn, 146, throw this up. Minocqua, you might have somewhere in the back of your mind, I've heard of this company before. Turns out this is the same brewing company, Minocqua Brewing Company, that hands out free beer should, God forbid, President Trump be assassinated. Said, well, we almost got free beer day. And I think this was after the White House correspondence dinner. Either a brother or sister in the resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle. We'll never know. Regardless, we stand ready at the ready to pour free beer the day it happens. Glenn, the moral decay is almost too much to make sense of. It's like we don't recognize the country we live in. What's your reaction when you see this whole story unfolding? 00:31:47 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let me bring it back to Van Jones. You know who led? 00:31:50 Speaker 12: I had five boycotts led by the White House under Obama, one of them led by Color of Change and Van Jones himself to boycott me. And it never affected us. It never affected us. It was hard to get through, but it didn't change our course. One iota, these guys and their free beer sponsor for, you know, ghouls, you know, God bless them. But don't lecture me about how hard it is to stand up against a boycott. 00:32:22 Speaker 3: Those were organized. 00:32:23 Speaker 12: And if you don't know about them, read Cheryl Atkinson's book. She outlined the whole thing that she says in the first chapter started with me. They perfected it on me. And then it's just spread all through the right. And they've been boycotting us and trying to intimidate people forever. 00:32:41 Speaker 3: That's what they do. 00:32:43 Speaker 12: There's a difference between an organized boycott And somebody saying, I think this is reprehensible. I won't do business with that company. And then everybody making their own choice. That's called freedom in America. There are consequences to things like this. But I think, honestly, that the ghoulishness is, you know, Charlemagne, the God, who I don't agree with on anything, just came out, I think, yesterday and said about. 00:33:15 Speaker 3: Dave Chappelle. That, you know, Dave crossed a line. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. 00:33:23 Speaker 12: You don't have to lead a boycott against these people, you know, who are saying just horrendous things. 00:33:30 Speaker 5: What? 00:33:31 Speaker 2: It happened all on its own. I didn't know. I wasn't even my idea. It just started happening because so many. 00:33:36 Speaker 12: People were so revolted. But you know why they're doing that? You know why they're doing that to you? Because they're using you, Charlie Kirk, and TPSA to raise money. That's all that this thing is. It's only to raise money. That's what they do on the left. There's nothing real there. 00:33:57 Speaker 2: No, you know, Daily Mail came out with an article reporting that they have lost $ 8 million in sponsorship after laughing at the joke, which was not funny at all, of exhuming Charlie's body and doing it again. And they laughed for like half a minute. 00:34:14 Speaker 4: They thought it was so hilarious. They are happy Charlie got murdered. They love the idea that someone would do it and that someone might get away with doing that. They are the sort of people who would cackle with laughter if tyler robinson got acquitted for what he did yeah and yeah and of course they're celebrating minocqua i mean yeah okay they were celebrating they wanted they were going to give out free beers if donald trump had been shot they also celebrated charlie being shot and they they took the opportunity on not merely to do it after he died but one year later to come out and say by the way we stand by everything we said charlie was terrible and got what was coming to him so Of course, we'll. 00:34:48 Speaker 12: Get that company as a sponsor. This is not just about Charlie, though. This is a culture of death. These are the same people who said, shout your abortion. Celebrate the death of a child. These are the same people who have been saying this kind of stuff and celebrating death every step of the way. It's the same mentality that leads Canada to have the fifth largest killer be doctors in Canada. 00:35:16 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:35:17 Speaker 12: And we choose life. And the good news is, I think on this is, I think it's coming undone. 00:35:24 Speaker 3: They're going to become more and more vicious. They are, because that's who they are. 00:35:30 Speaker 12: You know, I said back in 2009 or 10, I said, these guys cannot wait to tell you. 00:35:35 Speaker 3: Who they are. 00:35:36 Speaker 12: They're all wearing a mask, but they're Marxist. 00:35:39 Speaker 3: Leninist, death cultists. 00:35:41 Speaker 12: And that's who they really are. And they can't wait to tell you And someday they're going to pull the mask off. 00:35:49 Speaker 3: Well, they've pulled the mask off. And America is not scared yet. It's crazy. 00:35:54 Speaker 12: But America is not afraid of them yet. 00:35:57 Speaker 3: You know, may I quote Yoda? You will be. You will be. Because that's who they really are. And we just can't become them. 00:36:07 Speaker 2: We can't become them. We have to rise. We have to find our own civic virtue again, candidly. I think there's a hunger for it. And we need to be better. But whatever this is, whatever they're selling should terrify the crap out of Americans. And I think you're right. They will be. Glenn Beck, thank you, my friend. 00:36:25 Speaker 3: Great to see you. 00:36:26 Speaker 5: Thank you. Thanks, guys. 00:36:27 Speaker 3: Good to talk to you. 00:36:28 Speaker 5: Bye. 00:36:30 Speaker 2: An important message from Noble Gold Investments. November 3rd, control of Congress is on the line. And whatever happens, your savings are going to feel it. If Democrats take power, we could be looking at years of gridlock, followed by the same policies that fueled inflation before. More spending, bigger deficits, and a weaker dollar. We lived through this already. In June 2022, inflation was out of control and unchecked. 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You said, Dear Dave Chappelle, you are not the same human being you once were. And you were very respectful, but You had some pointed things to say, and I couldn't think of anybody better than yourself to chime in on this and get your reaction. The state of comedy, Rob. Where's it at? 00:38:12 Speaker 5: Well, the thing about it, it wasn't a joke there. I mean, it's also, you know, people were comparing because he said the same thing that Tony Hinchcliffe said at a roast. I think a roast is, you know, a little bit different. I mean, I don't see, like, you know, the. 00:38:31 Speaker 5: The commentator, what's his face? Thy God or that guy. 00:38:35 Speaker 2: Charlemagne the God. 00:38:37 Speaker 5: Yeah. I think I just agree. I mean, it's an ugliness to it. There was no joke. The idea of being happy that anyone has been violently murdered on live, on TV, it's just– on social media, it's despicable. And I– so– I just don't think, you know, for people like who knew him, you know, we knew him. And if you had spent time watching his, you know, his brilliance, I mean, all you have to do is go online and you'll see it. Go on Instagram. It'll come up. Charlie was a man of words. He was a man of kindness. He was a man of deeds, trying to bring people, literally souls to Christ and trying to protect like what he knew was a unique form of leadership, unique to the world. and that this American country has a history that is worth praising, and it is a system of government that unlike any before it, this was one that said that human beings had inalienable rights. In other words, our rights weren't given by the by the state or by some, uh, powerful men or a King they're given by God. And that is an unquestionable, right. And so I think for a lot of people who didn't, um, I mean, who just don't know him can think whatever they want, but like, I guarantee you, uh, you know, that, um, Chappelle has never seen any of the videos has never heard. 00:40:10 Speaker 2: I thought the same. 00:40:11 Speaker 5: Yeah. So he wouldn't, he wouldn't, um, he wouldn't have been so crass. And, and it's just like, You know, to me, is there nothing sacred anymore? I mean, we have like, you know, literally 10 percent of a certain generation of women that are, you know, only fans. I mean, is everything for sale? Is nothing? Is there nothing that we can't? And I'm up for jokes about anything. And, you know, interesting, Andrew, when you called me yesterday, you said something which is very thoughtful and caring. And that's something people, us conservatives, think about. We don't want to we don't want to squelch anybody's free speech. And that's the first thing you said yesterday to me. And let's talk about that. I mean, I think there's a difference between free speech and violent rhetoric. And I think celebrating somebody's death, I mean, unfortunately, just like Charlie's murderer, Tyler Robinson, he was, you know, motivated to do something. And I don't think he ever saw his stuff either. If he did, it was certainly taken out of context. And it riled up to the point where somebody would commit this murder. And I just think, like, to me, it's You know, Charlie was a special dude. I mean, he really helped, you know, save this country. I mean, it turned the country around from an open borders craziness where, you know, society was, you know, you can't go against godlessness without God. We're going to have to have somebody in our corner and to do something higher than ourselves. And Charlie stood for that and he understood that. And he had a grace about him. and he really was filled with the Spirit of Christ. And that was palpable. And I think why he was so hated was because, from people who don't know him, was because of that spirit that he had and the power that he, when he spoke. And he spoke with, yes? 00:42:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, well, as you said, you don't, you know, you said Dave used to not be like this. You said you don't think he watched those videos. But also, there's not really... As you said, there's not really a joke in what he was saying. And so it doesn't seem like this was a miscalculated bid to get laughs. It just seems like an expression of his feelings. And where do you think. 00:42:24 Speaker 5: That was coming from? Yeah, and I noticed it was tentative. You know, Andrew, there was a tentative reaction. It wasn't like, you know, they cheered right away. It was like even they, even the liberals in that audience were all, you know, slow to kind of respond because it wasn't ugliness. I felt it. As someone who performs all the time, you can feel when an audience just isn't into it, whether they– then the few ghouls who go along with it. I think like Dr. Martin Luther King died for sanitation workers. I mean he died so that they could have a decent– in Memphis. He was there to see– to talk to the mayor to see if they can get a decent living wage, a living wage, so that they could take care of their families because they were below– you know, blow a poverty line where they couldn't, you know, and this is something, a union, and he was there to fight for that and did, you know, and gave his life for that. Charlie gave his life for this country so that we could have conversations so that our children could be, you know, and university could have some critical thinking and fight back against what really is a liberal crap storm of a war on reality and a war on this culture. And that, I mean, the idea that You know, we have our freedoms, but these freedoms that we have can be democratically undermined by people who don't come in here with a good spirit. And that's what he was worried about with Islam. That's what he's worried about with the combination of Islam and the left was that, you know, because as John Adams said very famously, you know, this our form of government is made for a virtuous and religious people and is wholly inadequate for that of any other. So that's the that's the reality. So, I mean, I think that Dave is, you know, I just think he has a blind spot in this particular place. And I don't know how baked he was on stage or what. 00:44:21 Speaker 2: I'm sure he was. I'm sure he was baked. You know what's interesting? I went back and looked, Rob, because the question is, like, we don't want to react to this in the wrong way. I think the left has done themselves a massive disservice for the last decade plus of just being hall monitors, being Karens, like speech police. And we actually benefited by being like, hey, you can go say whatever you want. Go talk about trans. Go talk about whatever the issue is. 00:44:46 Speaker 4: That's why, as Bridget was saying yesterday, that we got all of those horror podcast people on our side for at least one cycle. 00:44:54 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. I mean, the interesting thing is I look back, though, Rob, and I– went back to 1981 to see what the reaction was after Reagan was, the attempted assassination against Reagan. I tried to find out, was there any ghoulish joking? Was there any gratuitous joking about that? And I found one. In a comic named Elaine Boosler, she told a joke that a predominantly black jury would let Hinckley go and tell him to get it right next time. The piece notes, the piece notes, there's one though, that was it. And the piece note that the joke bombed. Nobody laughed. And this was at an improv in Los Angeles. So the like the question, I mean, every stand up routine is a is an exercise in cancellation. If you tell bad jokes, they will boo you. They will they will hiss. They will throw tomatoes at you. And if it's good, they will laugh. And ultimately, that has to be the line. Like, I want to live in a culture that doesn't laugh at that. And I want to live in a culture that thinks it's so awful that the comedians stop telling those types of jokes because they know. 00:45:58 Speaker 4: I agree. 00:45:59 Speaker 5: I will tell you. I will tell you that. Go back and listen to that reaction from that. The Madison Square Garden gave New York City gave to that statement that I feel better. Interesting. 00:46:12 Speaker 2: I will play it on the other side of the brain. 00:46:14 Speaker 5: And I will tell you, it was not a roar of approval. It was the ghouls. And I will tell you that, like, it was an ugly statement that that I think is beneath him. And we're all able to we all can make mistakes and we all can do things. It just seems to me like Charlie was I mean, it was the violent murder of someone who was a son, a husband, a father and a young man. There's no there's any way or shape or form. I mean, remember how, you know, for George Floyd seconds, you know. Yeah. 00:46:44 Speaker 12: Yeah. 00:46:45 Speaker 5: George Floyd. 00:46:45 Speaker 2: He was he was. 00:46:46 Speaker 5: Rightfully upset. I don't think... This is another violent death that was unnecessary. And how come we can't... We have to have some sacredness to it. There's got to be something to it. 00:46:57 Speaker 2: There's nothing sacred anymore, I think, was one of the most powerful things you've said, Rob. There's nothing sacred anymore. Rob, here's the clip that we're talking about. And we're going to listen for the cheer. 23. I mean, look. 00:47:12 Speaker 11: Ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, And I shouldn't say this publicly, but. 00:47:23 Speaker 3: I feel better. 00:47:27 Speaker 12: I know I shouldn't say that, but it's just a feeling. 00:47:32 Speaker 5: Okay, you heard that, right? 00:47:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard it. 00:47:36 Speaker 5: The reaction was muted and kind of a shock. And I don't think it got the response. It wasn't a roar of approval. I do think the first people that yelled out, I think... I think for that audience, it's beyond the pale. Otherwise, you didn't hear a roar of approval like you would have had some anti-Trump joke back in 2016, which was every comedian's easiest place to go. I mean, to talk about having no courage, go after Trump. 00:48:05 Speaker 3: In 2016, 17, and 18. You just need to say his name. 00:48:09 Speaker 5: And then the liberal audience would lose their minds. How did you feel about that? 00:48:14 Speaker 2: I agree with you. Actually, on second listening, it was more subtle. It was more muted. I think those are fair words. The woman was saying something. 00:48:22 Speaker 4: I couldn't tell what she was quite saying. 00:48:24 Speaker 2: Like, that's a human being or something? Yeah, it might have been like that. But she kind of giggled too, right? It's hard to make out. There's another line here, though, that we found out too, and this is the Tony Hinchcliffe thing. Rob, you could fill us in on kind of like the protocols within– You know, stand-up circles. I'm told it's like, you know, really against the rules to steal somebody's line. I don't know that that's the main point here. Let's listen to it real quick, Rob, and then we'll get your reaction on the other side. Sot 25. Did you hear that groan? 00:49:00 Speaker 5: Yeah. 00:49:00 Speaker 11: Mm-hmm. 00:49:03 Speaker 5: They just weren't into it, and I think that what that is in reference to was during one of the roasts, I think the Kevin Hart roasts, which are brutality. It's being as brutal as you can be, and you try to be as brutal. inappropriate as you can be to try to outgross the other people. It's a different game than performing in Madison Square Garden. It's a different kind of performance. It is to see if you can outrage your previous performer, and that's what Tony Hinchcliffe was doing. So the reference... that of, you know, Charlie Kirk is looking up at us, I think is a, smiling, is directly, you know, it's not a lift, as you would say. 00:49:51 Speaker 3: It's a, it. 00:49:52 Speaker 5: Was his way of countering what Tony Hinchcliffe did about George Floyd. 00:49:57 Speaker 4: I even remember us discussing. 00:49:59 Speaker 2: Yeah, but like, you know, like, there's no comparing George Floyd to Charlie Kirk. I mean, as you rightly said, Charlie was a light He was a beautiful soul. He was an amazing man. And George Floyd, I don't think he should have died. That breaks my heart for anybody. But obviously the guy had problems. 00:50:22 Speaker 4: Well, I think that gets back to the original thing. I remember the day it happened, people were saying, because the left was making fun of it the moment it happened. And someone pointed out, it's like, You know, if you guys want to understand how this feels to us, imagine how you would feel when you saw someone you sympathized with, like a drug addict or a criminal. 00:50:42 Speaker 5: Well, you know what happens is, I think, look, if I can jump in. What you have is you have a, there is no sympathy and no empathy for anybody outside your tribe, your political tribe and your group. And everyone, no matter how, and it's the extremes of the, you know, on the fringe of it, I would think. I'm going to hope. But you can have no empathy and you can have abject cruelty as long as it's towards the right group. Whereas somebody in the in-group, then you have all the empathy and sympathy that you want. And I think that's what you're seeing. You're seeing a dehumanization. Conservatives grouped together, just another way to hate Trump and to hate conservatives and anyone associated with him. And truthfully, not even understanding, I mean, what a beautiful human being Charlie was. I mean, literally, I think one of the most consequential people of the century, for sure. And the thing about Charlie was there was no agenda there except how much he loved the country. And that irritated the left so much because he was a man of God bringing souls to Christ and trying to preserve what this country was, a nation under God, a Christian God. And he wanted to make sure that that as many people who had forgotten about it and the young people who were not taught that, that they knew that. Those are all beautiful things. 00:52:08 Speaker 2: Rob, the first thing, you know, when I saw this clip and I posted it, it was John 15, 18 through 25, where he says, If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belong to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. This is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you. And so that was the first thing that I thought of, and I think you're absolutely right. 00:52:34 Speaker 5: Well, the thing about it is, if you take a look at, what is the Bible verse now? But it is, whether it's Leviticus or Exodus, it's, you know, what do they call Satan? He's a murderer, and then he's a slanderer. He's a murderer, a liar, a slanderer. 00:52:52 Speaker 3: An accuser of the brethren. 00:52:55 Speaker 5: Yes, and so you're seeing all those lists come out. And for the people who are like, you know, the most effective are the ones that will be targeted. And I will say that, you know, I'm buoyed by the lack of response from that audience. And also, I mean, well, like, you know, Andrew, and like the first thing you said to me, which I really, really respect and appreciate, was like, we don't want to squelch Dave Chappelle's free speech. He has the free speech. And the audience, I thought, reacted well to that, you know, as best as they could in their humanity. And that's a very liberal crowd in New York City. As far as the witches of democracy, those two ladies, look at the $ 8 million that they lost. And, you know, there's a price to be paid. And they are absolutely unrepentant. And that's the right word, unrepentant. 00:53:46 Speaker 2: Absolutely. Rob Schneider. Thank you, my friend. Thank you for always honoring Charlie so well. 00:53:51 Speaker 5: Thank you, brother. 00:53:55 Speaker 2: $ 28 may not sound like much, but to a scared mother considering abortion, it can help provide something incredibly important, a real opportunity to pause and see her baby for the first time. Today, a woman facing an unexpected pregnancy can reach for her phone, search for abortion pills, and have the pills delivered directly to her home. She can move from fear toward abortion incredibly quickly. But your gift can help create another opportunity. 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Right now, you can help make motherhood possible by providing ultrasounds with Preborn. I'd be so honored if you'd prayerfully consider joining us. 00:55:30 Speaker 2: There's so much going on right now. So there is... A lot happening behind the scenes right now, especially with Senate leadership, okay? This was the rumor this morning. I'm going to play a clip from Lawrence Jones. It's, you know, this behind-the-scenes maneuvering I don't think is going to fly right now. It's not 17. 00:55:50 Speaker 9: The candidate forum is this morning, and the results with the secret ballot will be this afternoon unless they listen to these few senators and say we're going to postpone. 00:55:59 Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like it's just time to do running. 00:56:01 Speaker 15: I just don't understand why they would, after what happened on Tuesday— think that what they're doing currently is acceptable. 00:56:08 Speaker 3: To the voters. 00:56:09 Speaker 15: I mean, you've got to have some self-assessment and figure out what went wrong. And if the voters feel like you didn't deliver on the agenda and many of it died in the Senate, and you're going to take that same leadership path, I think that's suicide right there. 00:56:28 Speaker 2: Well, I think Lawrence Jones is on to something. So that was rumors of a closed-door meeting to elect, basically, rubber stamp John Thune. Now, it's no secret, I've been very public about this. I called for the replacement of John Thune months ago. I'd seen enough. The man is not cut out for the job of herding these cats in the Senate. Now, we have about less than eight weeks to get so much accomplished right now. Now, these are the senators, 145, that have come out and said they will not rubber stamp this senator. closed door john thune over again this redux that's ron johnson from wisconsin he said he just marched right out if they tried to do a leadership election he just marched right out mike lee from utah rick scott in florida john kennedy from louisiana dave mccormick uh from pennsylvania jim banks from indiana and ted bud from north carolina i think all of those gentlemen have been on this show multiple times except for ted bud so they're putting together a pretty good uh I would say coalition of the willing right there to push back any of this, say delay the leadership vote, which I think is the right move. See if you can get some of President Trump's agenda passed. What is the agenda? Well, I think they should try for the Save America Act, but it starts with 150. Very important for the U.S. Senate to confirm all of our pending 161 nominations, including 25 federal judges. Thank you for your attention to this matter. This has been your Big push all along. 00:58:01 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what you got to focus on. I think the Save America Act, I would have loved to have passed it. I think it's too late now in the sense that there is going to be cost to being the party that nukes the filibuster. The Democrats say they really want to do it. You might as well make them take that, considering at this point, it's like. It's like trying to close the barn. 00:58:22 Speaker 2: Door after it already happened. Yeah, they won't nuke it while Trump is in the White House. 00:58:25 Speaker 4: It's just not worth doing. 00:58:26 Speaker 2: They won't because he'll veto. Veto, veto, veto. They're not going to do it right now. 00:58:30 Speaker 4: You can nuke the filibuster without... Trump can't veto that. Well, we won't get into that. The thing you have to prioritize, though, as we were agreeing, is you need to be focused on... Get all of the confirmations through. And there's a lot of them. There are, let me see, 25 federal judges who are open. And honestly, I should check. I don't even know if that's every vacancy. If there is any vacancies out there, get a nominee out right now. That should be the priority. 161 other nominations. Some of those are just galling. There's a lot that were made last March, even earlier. Ambassadorships, positions in State Department. A lot of stuff that we're supposed to have people, they could have confirmed them. In August, they went on vacation. They could have confirmed them in September, went on vacation. And they wasted their time, didn't confirm them. Now's the time to do it. If you don't do it now, well, you're as worthless as all of our emails seem to think you are. 00:59:17 Speaker 2: Throw up 138, though. I love this fighting spirit from Ron John. This is exactly what we need, 138. So he's replying to David Sivak, who's a reporter. He says, news, Ron Johnson plans to walk out of the room if leadership elections move forward on Tuesday. If you hold the election, I'll leave the room. Ron Johnson says, I simply won't participate in business as usual. An election defeat of this magnitude demands change. Totally agree. All the arrows are coming for Trump right now. All the arrows are coming for people like Turning Point that got out the vote. 00:59:51 Speaker 5: Okay? Okay. 00:59:52 Speaker 2: I've said it before. I'll say it again. We felt we could get three to five points in these close races. By the way, we're seeing that, you know, Eli crane, uh, just yesterday was announced as the winner of his race. It was a narrow win. He's in an R seven district. It shifted six points to the Dems. All right. There's enough to save them. Jay Feely was in like an R one district. It moved seven points though. Both those districts probably would have moved the national average, which is almost 13 points. 01:00:19 Speaker 3: Yeah. 01:00:19 Speaker 2: Had we not done our effort, but, All these slings and arrows are coming for people doing good work, and they're coming for President Trump. But half the blame needs to go on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue. Half the blame needs to go to the do-nothing Senate. And I think Senator Ron Johnson, Mike Lee, and these types, they understand that, that we had a mandate to get things done, real change accomplished, like the Save America Act, and that was left unfinished. And we are paying the political price for it now. What's the point of electing Republicans if you can't get anything done? And I understand we had a lot of dead weight. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, McConnell, uh, Rand Paul was hard to wrangle oftentimes, but he's, I think he, you absolutely can work with Rand Paul. This, this is the issue that they had, but that's your job leader soon to deal with these people that don't want to play ball. Cassidy Tillis. I understand it was a raucous caucus, but you got to deal with these people. 01:01:12 Speaker 4: Even if you can't get them to vote for it, like what you could actually do is do the votes and You have so many endless opportunities. The biggest problem I have with the Senate is they just don't vote on things. Even if you can't nuke the filibuster, make everyone go on the record for who's going. 01:01:26 Speaker 2: To preserve the filibuster. 01:01:27 Speaker 4: Or do freaking votes to have Democrats block stuff that could be popular. Make Democrats stand up there. Do immigration reform stuff. Say, oh, we're not going to let you bring in child brides anymore we're not going to do let you we're going to cap the h1b stuff you could do stuff like that and make democrats get in the breach and vote on it so you can hurt them and instead what people saw what they saw was senator thun and others coming out and saying yeah we really want to do the save act we're hopeful we can get it through you know we're working really hard at this and everyone felt like they were being lied to and then nothing happened and they went and said we got lied to we got cheated these guys are a bunch of shams. 01:02:06 Speaker 2: Well, this is the culture that needs to be broken in Washington. When you have deadweight senators, you need to not protect them. You need to force them to out themselves. And I think what happens in the Senate, and it's supposed to be this very collegiate body where everybody's very respectful of one another. And I actually think some of that's good. Don't get me wrong. But you should not be playing cover for people that all they do is block the agenda of the American people. Ultimately, they need to own the way that they want to vote. Okay? Ultimately, they need to own it. And by Thune refusing to do the votes, there are bad senators that will make it through a primary future because they haven't been called to account. That's the problem. You have to bring these people to the floor. And to Blake's point, you could have given them layups that even the bad senators would have been like, well, I'm not voting against that. Child brides? 01:03:04 Speaker 5: Mm-hmm. 01:03:05 Speaker 2: Let the Democrats own that. Let their insanity be shown before the world so everybody knows where they stand. Now, the other thing that we need to get accomplished in this lame duck session is we need to get another reconciliation bill across the line. We had two, maybe three bites of the apple that were possible. We got one based on Senate rules. So you have eight weeks left. You better be working 24-7. Literally, no breaks. No breaks, Mr. 01:03:34 Speaker 5: Thune. 01:03:36 Speaker 2: Make them work. Make the Democrats work. Pedal to the metal. Reconciliation bill. Get our agenda passed before they take over, before the lunatics are running the asylum, because that's what it is. 01:03:48 Speaker 4: Have you seen a picture of these people? 01:03:50 Speaker 5: Yeah. 01:03:50 Speaker 2: It's like Calrico, El Sayed, Pappas. It's literally like a trans-loving, a gay man, and a Muslim walking. 01:03:59 Speaker 5: To a bar. 01:03:59 Speaker 4: It's just frustrating because what we all, I think what you and I both know, Andrew, deep down, is we need a more revolutionary cast of mind within our senators and that's not saying we don't want the democrat version of blow everything up blow up the supreme court basically nuke our constitution we want you just have to think is the senate real and that was the argument for abolishing the filibuster that for 20 years at this point basically the senate has been fake because no one ever has 60 votes they can never pass anything real and so it's just nothing but a block and burden on our process yep And. Like, you just need to be daring, you have to dare, you have to imagine a Senate that can pass things and that if you deliver on things will actually win elections. Yeah, we would win so many more elections if we had a Senate that was out there banning congressional stock trading, actively draining the swamp. Imagine if we went out to the voters and said, oh, you're worried about corruption. We made it so people who are enriching themselves in D.C. can't do it anymore. 01:05:00 Speaker 2: So many layups, so many missed opportunities. I think that's why the anger is so potent right now is because we squandered a massive opportunity wasn't that the base wasn't calling for it it wasn't that the show wasn't calling for it we did screamed our lungs out the senate just didn't do any of it so an interesting little piece of drama is unfolding when we're talking about the senate and that's tim burchett so marcia blackburn was elected governor of tennessee she was obviously a senator she's still a senator technically until the new term takes over And she's going to be in charge of naming her replacement. So Tim Burchett is making his case to replace Marsha Blackburn, SOT 27. 01:05:43 Speaker 7: I would relish the opportunity, ma'am. I think I'm very well prepared to do that job. I think I know the program. I think I would be the one that would step up and stop if our leadership was pushing Democrat socialist ideas. And I believe I know the process to stop the funding of those bills and stop them in their tracks. Somebody's got to be able to do that. The education system is very steep in this body, in both bodies, and I believe I'd be the one that could deliver that. I'd also be a conduit for good bills. 01:06:11 Speaker 2: I would love to know what you guys think. Send us an email right now. What do you think about Tim Burchett in the U.S. Senate? He's been on this show before. He's a straight-speaking southerner who kind of tells it like it is. He does these selfie videos kind of, I think, reflecting the mood of the base really well. And remember, grassroots, grassroots, grassroots. This has to be a bottom-up movement. It has to be. That's what Turning Point exists to do. That's what Charlie believed in. Grassroots, grassroots, grassroots. It's what we are. We hear from you. We try and communicate it. We try and get that into the zeitgeist. But there's a, I guess a sub stack is the right way to, from a guy named Scott Greer. We've talked about him before. 01:06:51 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we were reading that, yeah. He's been on here before. 01:06:53 Speaker 2: As we're talking about, because you know, there's that Bible verse where it says, behold, I'm doing a new thing. Okay. I feel in my spirit, and maybe you guys do as well, send us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com, that something new is emerging. It always happens after a big loss or a big tectonic political shakeup, and that's what we just lived through. It doesn't mean, however, that our ideas are bad. It doesn't. But it does mean that we need to be reflective of it, and he wrote something in his new substack that really resonated with me. I'm going to read it to you and see what you all think. 01:07:28 Speaker 4: The title of this, by the way, was called Plan Trusting is Over. 01:07:31 Speaker 12: Hmm. 01:07:32 Speaker 4: That was the name of the piece. 01:07:33 Speaker 2: So Greer says, It has to get out from under Trump's shadow and present itself as something different from the current administration. If the GOP promises four more years of Trump without Trump, Republicans will get murdered in 2028. Realism, not planned trusting, is the only way forward. The part about this that I think resonates, and again, I want to hear your guys' thoughts. Corruption, clownishness, reckless foreign adventures. 01:08:23 Speaker 4: I think there's an element. Donald Trump is such an exceptional figure. There's been nobody like him. 01:08:30 Speaker 2: Only Trump can be Trump. 01:08:31 Speaker 4: Only Trump can be Trump. Charlie would say that sometimes. 01:08:33 Speaker 2: Don't try and outdo Trump. 01:08:34 Speaker 4: Don't try to outdo Trump. Don't try to really imitate Trump too much, except on the stuff that is imitatable, which some things are. The policies. The policies, and also just some of that being tough, being based, as it were. Don't get bossed around by people. But there's an element. Trump has that very combative persona. He does stuff. Or like, or like even the Rob Reiner thing that Rob Reiner gets murdered by. his mentally ill son along with his wife and Trump comes out and kind of makes this pretty ugly tweet saying, you know, he got killed by Trump derangement syndrome and everyone, we didn't like it, but everyone also kind of forgot about it and moved on. I don't think other people could get away with that kind of behavior bluntly. And I think that just that's just a single example of how Trump is just an exceptional figure that day. And yeah, and we talked about it on the show. 01:09:24 Speaker 2: I tweeted as soon as I heard about it. And, you know, Rob Reiner was a very political, like far left political activist. There's no doubt he hated Trump. He was a part of trying to get Trump thrown in prison. I understand why the president didn't like it, to be honest. perfectly fair but i i didn't think about. 01:09:40 Speaker 16: Any of that i heard the news and setting that aside i said i said nice thing setting that aside setting that aside it just speaks to trump is a highly unusual figure and i think that's what greer is getting at when he says if we just promise four years of trumpism without trump we'll get murdered and that's true because i think there is a reality that only trump can. 01:09:59 Speaker 4: Sort of get away with his particular combination of policy and sort of big man personality. And so you do, we're probably going to need a way of selling. This is something that is different from what the last four years were. 01:10:15 Speaker 2: Chew the meat, spit out the bones from whatever this past thing was, which was necessary, by the way, the backbone that Greer talks about in this, I think is really. Yeah. 01:10:23 Speaker 4: And it's interesting because for example, if you looked at Ron DeSantis's campaign in 24, I think there was a real attempt to brand that as like, this is, Trump's policies without any of the stuff about Trump that sort of makes people uncomfortable from time to time. And it didn't work. It didn't quite appeal to people. 01:10:40 Speaker 2: People weren't ready for it yet. The question is, are they ready for it now? That's why I'm so curious about the emails that they come in. I know we're going to get a bunch. But the question is, what are you guys hungry for? What do you want to see changed? What do you think needs to change? What doesn't need to change? I'll tell you one thing I don't want to see changed. And that is immigration. I want to be hardcore about that. If you want to know how the left still plans to transform this country, and they've already made a ton of inroads on this, they want to replace the body politic. They want to bring in the third world and have them voting Democrat for the rest of their lives and for generations. They will do that. If you let them, they will do that. And we were just getting walked over before because we didn't want to come off as racist. Well, I think we've learned our lesson there. Those ideas need to stay put. The border needs to stay put. The skepticism about international interventions, foreign wars in far-flung places. 01:11:39 Speaker 4: We got our first email, and it's Penny, and it says, no one can trump Trump. Well, that's exactly what we were saying. It's not even that no one can copy Trump. It's nobody can. 01:11:50 Speaker 2: I. 01:11:52 Speaker 4: Don't even think anyone can make the particular combination of political ideology and public behavior and speech giving. 01:12:01 Speaker 2: It's an aesthetic thing. 01:12:02 Speaker 4: It's a thing. He had a special hold on the American right, and really on the American public, because even the way he sets off people on the left is different from anyone who's come before and anyone who will come after, I believe. Even though we've talked about, oh, they called Mitt Romney a fascist, they called George Bush a fascist, going back forever, and yet I don't think anyone who comes after Trump will be able to match that level of insanity. 01:12:26 Speaker 2: No, no. I do think that they've learned that they can propagandize the American people to believe just about anything, and that is the fear. The right has to get unified. This is the time to have these fights, by the way. 01:12:39 Speaker 4: That's what's going to be great. We said AmFest is going to have more debates. We should keep advertising that. You can still get tickets to AmFest, correct? 01:12:46 Speaker 3: Yep, absolutely. 01:12:47 Speaker 4: So we encourage you to come here. If you want to be debating... What direction should MAGA, what direction should conservatism, what direction should the Republican Party take in 2027 and 2028 and beyond? You should attend AmFest. 01:13:02 Speaker 3: Yeah. 01:13:02 Speaker 4: Four days of it. 01:13:03 Speaker 2: We're going to have iPads and you can vote on straw polls and let your voice be heard that way, too, which is definitely going to make a lot of news. It usually does at AmFest. 01:13:16 Speaker 4: For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.