David Barton: We Might Be On the Verge of Revolution

February 22, 2016

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The Context

The South Carolina primary was Saturday and Donald Trump came out the big winner followed by Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz who were in a virtual tie for second place. David Barton joined the program and broke down the numbers behind the votes and what he found surprised him.

“Well, I thought there would be a revolution, but not in the sense of having a physical revolution,” Barton said Monday on The Glenn Beck Program. “I'm now more of a believer that it's a real thing. The numbers I saw in South Carolina . . . I was literally shocked. I was shocked at not only the numbers, but the words that were behind some of the numbers. The questions that were literally asked and how people responded to that, it really gave me a lot of pause in a way that I have not done in recent years.”

The Bubba Effect

If you've been a listener over the past few years, Glenn has talked extensively about a term called The Bubba Effect, something he believes is now here. The Bubba Effect is when a group of people feel they have been pushed over the edge by an overbearing government, and someone responds with force or violence. Even though they know it’s wrong, the majority of people support the violence.

“The Bubba Effect, I believe, is in full effect right now,” Glenn said. “I believe Donald Trump is The Bubba Effect, and I'll explain that later, based on some of these polls that are coming in. And they are frightening. They're truly frightening when you read the exit polls and you know what you're looking for.”

What was most frightening for David Barton? The term "betrayal."

“Well, the term we'll get into later is the term "betrayal," Barton said. “[Voters] feel betrayed. And when you look at betrayal and you look at what psychologists say that represents, that's a scary term. It's not like someone has just crossed me --- betrayal is deep stuff.”

Terrorism

The number one issue for South Carolina voters according to exit polling was terrorism at 32%, but the staggering number was that 75% of voters did not want Syrian refugees. Glenn explained why that is such a significant number.

“This is America saying, 'Look, we don't buy your bullcrap that it's a peaceful religion and the Muslim Brotherhood are largely secular.' What they know is, Muslims have come in from the Middle East, not necessarily American Muslims . . . Islamists is the better way to term this. Islamists are not peaceful. Muslims can be peaceful. But we have bent over backwards to say everybody is peaceful. And this guy is just a lone wolf, when we know that's bullcrap,” Glenn said.

What’s Sticking to Cruz

There may be several factors that hurt Cruz’ performance or why Rubio and Trump did so well, but there is one thing that Glenn believes is starting to take its toll on Ted.

“So here's the other thing that's hurting Ted Cruz that is sticking: that he's running the dirty campaign and that he's a liar. I have to tell you, I mean, I would not be with a liar. And I won't make any excuses,” Glenn said.

David has been hearing the same thing over and over and it might start to be something the Cruz campaign should be worried about even if it’s a lie itself.

“It's interesting the way they've gone at it. Trump says, [Cruz is] a liar. He lies about everything. He's the biggest liar --- just lie, lie, lie. That's the word [Trump] uses over and over, and people repeat that. And I say, 'Can you give me one example?' No, but [Cruz is] a liar,” Barton said.

Common Sense Bottom Line

If the exit polls in South Carolina prove anything it’s that we are a deeply divided country and at an extremely crucial point in our history. We have been pushed by an overbearing government and we might start to see violence, but we cannot let The Bubba Effect take root in our hearts. We must continue to be like Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and serve our fellow man with love.

“And this is why I have been saying, 'Jesus, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, pick one. Pick one.' You've got to hold on to who you are, the principles that you have, and you can't fight hate with hate.” Glenn said.

Listen to this segment from The Glenn Beck Program:

Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors:

GLENN: So glad you've tuned in. We've run out of time for Courage Boys. We'll have to move that or hit it tomorrow.

I have David Barton here with us. And he's been looking at the poll numbers out of South Carolina. And we're going to get into those here in a bit. But, David, I wanted to talk to you a bit because I know one of the headlines is going to be, "Glenn Beck says there's going to be a revolution." I don't think you believed that until you saw the poll numbers coming out of the last three states.

DAVID: Well, I thought there would be a revolution, but not in the sense of having a physical revolution. You know, I thought there would be political or something. I'm now more of a believer that it's a real thing. The numbers I saw in South Carolina -- you know, I told you the email shocked me. I was literally shocked. I was shocked at not only the numbers, but the words that were behind some of the numbers. The questions that were literally asked and how people responded to that, it really gave me a lot of pause in a way that I have not done in recent years.

GLENN: And, quite honestly, if we had responsible journalists and responsible press, they would be talking to you now. And this is why I have been saying, "Jesus, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, pick one. Pick one." But you've got to hold on to who and you are the principles that you have. And you can't fight hate with hate. And that's exactly what's happening.

And people -- the Bubba Effect, I believe, is in full effect right now. I believe Donald Trump is the Bubba Effect. And I'll explain that later, based on some of these polls that are coming in. And they are frightening. They're truly frightening when you read the exit polls and you know what you're looking for.

DAVID: Yeah. The numbers are scary on this. And the terms are scary too.

GLENN: What do you mean "the terms"?

DAVID: Well, the term we'll get into later is the term "betrayal." They feel betrayed. And when you look at betrayal and you look at what psychologists say that that represents, that's a scary term. It's not like someone has just crossed me. Betrayal is deep stuff.

GLENN: So I want to make sure that you hear this. Because the media will spin this out of control. And they'll make it into another crazy conspiracy theory. But I just want to point out: '99, I talked about Osama bin Laden in New York and said that there would be blood and bodies in the streets and the signature would be Osama bin Laden. And nobody believed me. In 2006 and '7, I talked to you about financial crash, the crash of biblical proportions, based on the housing market. I told you that there would be a caliphate, and everybody mocked that. I'm telling you, we are on the path for revolution. And a violent revolution.

Right now, we're talking about a velvet revolution. But if we make the wrong choice at this point, we are -- and I'll make this case, based on the polls and what we're seeing. And nobody in the media is going to -- they're going to mock it. Don't mock this warning. Please don't mock this warning.

All right. So we'll get into that here in just a second. And I'm actually anxious for David to hear the -- the -- the founders, the black founders, because David is the one who originally turned us on to black founders. We had absolutely no idea.

Pat, do you know who this -- which is the black founder that we're hitting today?

PAT: Crispus Attucks.

GLENN: Who played a huge, huge role. I was just up in Boston a couple weeks ago. And I asked people, "So where is the Old North Church?" And they're like, "You know, it's been years since I've been there. I'm not really sure."

So what is that memorial over there?

That's Bunker Hill, I think. I'm not really sure.

I mean, It's amazing that people who live in that, with all of that history, how many people just dismiss it. And they're just -- it becomes old hat. I don't really -- I learned that in school. And I don't really remember.

PAT: Yeah, they don't pay attention. You only pay attention kind of when you go to Boston on vacation and you're there to see the revolutionary sites and do all of that, and then you appreciate that stuff. I think when you live there, you just kind of -- it's like living around Disneyland. You get immune to it.

STU: All right. But ask them where the nearest Dunkin' Donuts is.

PAT: Oh, they know where that is.

STU: They will know that. They will know that.

PAT: Yeah. Yeah. Ask them what channel the Apprentice is on, and they know that. Right?

GLENN: I will tell you that I've never seen them -- I was seeing them from the window. I've been to Boston a hundred times. I've never had the opportunity -- never had the time to do it. It's something I have to do with my kids because it's amazing. It's all still there. It's all still there. And maybe we should spend a little more time learning about it.

We'll learn something that no one in the mainstream media, no one in the educational system wants you to learn. The history of our black founders, next.

Hour 2

GLENN: I'll number Durango Hills today in Las Vegas. At noon. And 4 o'clock, I'll be in Elko, Nevada, which I've never been. And then in Reno tonight. Which is a beautiful city. And then tomorrow, we'll be around another few places tomorrow in Nevada. Just check GlennBeck.com for all the details or my Facebook page. We'll make sure you can find out where we are.

So in South Carolina, quite honestly, it was like a kick to the gut in South Carolina. But we learned an awful lot about what is happening in America and how high the anger is in America. We never make a good choice -- how many times have you ever said these words, "I was so angry today, and I made the best choice I've ever made?" We always start our apologies with, "I'm really sorry. I flew off the handle. I was really angry." Never have I made a good decision when I was angry.

And David is going to take us through some of the poll numbers and what really happened in South Carolina. David Barton is with us.

DAVID: You want to start with the angry side --

GLENN: You take us where you think we need to go.

DAVID: Well, I'll tell you the way it started for me. I was not in South Carolina the night the results came in. I was speaking at a big event in east Texas.

PAT: I'm just wondering if this is the David Barton --

GLENN: Come on. Let's get something out.

DAVID: What is the website, Pat?

GLENN: Oh, jeez.

PAT: Keepthepromise.com.

GLENN: We got it. Let me just say -- if you would like to help the super PAC for Ted Cruz, you can go to keepthepromise.com. Now, can we please move on?

JEFFY: So this is the David Barton from --

GLENN: Stop it right now. Please, I'm begging you guys. Turn the mics off, Sarah, in Dallas.

Okay. David, tell us what happened.

DAVID: So I looked at the result after the event that night was over, and I saw all sorts of headlines. I saw what had happened, that Cruz had come in third. I saw that evangelicals had abandoned him. That they did not do well. The conservative state did not go for him. And so I saw all these headlines. Then as I was with you this weekend --

GLENN: And you were as shocked as I was.

DAVID: I was shocked. I was absolutely shocked. Our numbers were not close to what the results came in as. Really, nobody's numbers were close. They missed Rubio by a long way. Trump overperformed. Cruz underperformed by what was predicted. So it was a gut blow. It was kind of a gut blow.

So I had not thought about it much. You asked -- you sent me the email and said, "What happened?" So I sent you back a few articles that had exit polls, but I hadn't really looked at them. And so as we were talking last night, I spent time going through the exit polls. And the headlines completely misportrayed what the numbers show.

So, for example, you take -- and let me put it in perspective and then we can talk about how things felt. The biggest issues that were on voters' minds in South Carolina, which were really different from Iowa and elsewhere, but the biggest issues that were out there -- number one issue was terrorism. That was the number one issue at 32 percent, followed by jobs and the economy for 28 percent, government spending 27 percent, immigration 10 percent.

GLENN: Okay. Listen. Now, when it comes to terrorism, it's specifically the Syrian refugees.

DAVID: That's right.

GLENN: And as I explained to David last night, this is the Bubba effect. Because David is like, where are the Syrian refugees? How is that even a story right now?

DAVID: And, by the way, the reason I was struck with that was 75 percent of South Carolina voters said we like Trump because he doesn't want any Syrian -- and I had no clue it would be 75 percent.

GLENN: Right. And why is that number so high? And I explained to David, this is the Bubba Effect. This is America saying, "Look, we don't buy your bullcrap that it's a peaceful religion. And the Muslim Brotherhood are largely secular." What they know is, Muslims have come in from the Middle East, not necessarily American Muslims and Islamists is the better way to term this. Islamists are not peaceful. Muslims can be peaceful. But we have bent over backwards to say everybody is peaceful. And this guy is just a lone wolf, when we know that's bullcrap.

So when the government is not protecting us, that is the secret of the Bubba Effect. When the government isn't protecting, the people push back on that. They get angry and say, "You know what, get out of our town. We know what the truth is, and you're part of the problem." And that's why the Syrian refugees was the -- by far, the number one concern of the people who went to the polls in South Carolina.

DAVID: And for those folks, Trump was their guy.

GLENN: Because he says no Muslims.

DAVID: He says, Muslims, shut it down. That's where they went. Although there were these other issues, 75 percent, that was a stunning number to me.

GLENN: Right.

DAVID: And the other numbers that stood out to me, is I was told -- let's see if I get the numbers. 74 percent were evangelicals that voted. As it turned out, 74 percent were not evangelicals. That was evangelicals born again. So in the evangelicals, Cruz did really good with the evangelicals. But among the born agains -- and evangelicals are born agains who are serious about their faith. So those serious about their faith, Cruz did really well with. Those who were not serious about their faith and not very conservative, that's where Trump cleaned up. And so the media said, oh, all the evangelicals are going for Trump. No, not so. There was a definite categorization difference between those who practice their faith and those who didn't.

GLENN: And actually those who practiced their faith, it was split between Rubio and Cruz.

DAVID: That's right. Rubio and Cruz had the high percentage of those who were serious about their faith.

GLENN: So here's the other thing that's hurting Ted Cruz that is sticking, that he's running the dirty campaign and that he's a liar. I have to tell you, I mean, I would not be with a liar. And I won't make any excuses. I think -- you know, I think like -- what was it? Oh, the thing in Iowa where he said, you know, they sent out fliers --

DAVID: Ben Carson.

GLENN: No, no. The fliers that they sent out and said, "You're in violation of voting violation." That's been done over and over again by the Democrats and the Republicans. So it's nothing new. I don't like it. I wouldn't have done that myself. But it's totally fair game. Nobody has ever had a problem with that in the past.

He's not playing dirty ball. But the problem is, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump are all saying the same thing because they know, if they take him out, then the whole landscape changes. And so he's an impediment to them. So they're doing what they did to, you know, Mitt Romney and everybody always does. You -- you target one, take him out. Then you retarget another one and take them out. So they're all targeting Marco Rubio -- Ted Cruz.

DAVID: It's interesting the way they've gone at it. Trump says, he's a liar. He lies about everything. He's the biggest liar -- just lie, lie, lie. That's the word he uses over and over. And people repeat that. And I say, "Can you give me one example?" No, but he's a liar.

Give me an example.

Well, he's a liar.

And it goes back to what William James said in the 1800s. He said, there's nothing so absurd, but that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

GLENN: Hitler said the same thing.

DAVID: That's right. And that's what's been happening. That did hurt Cruz in South Carolina. The negatives went up on him. We really can't trust him because he's a liar. No evidence of that. That's just a claim.

GLENN: I know Ted Cruz. That's the most incredible thing I've heard. He's trying to be friends with everybody. He's not taking these guys out. He's the only one not engaging in those nasty -- you know, this nasty kind of --

DAVID: Well, I'll tell you, when I -- when they asked me to take the super PAC and I did. I said, "Here's the deal, I'm not going to be an attack dog. I'm not going to do a super PAC that's going after everybody attacking. I believe in Romans 12:21. You overturn the evil with the good. We'll run positive messaging. I don't mind contrast ads. I don't mind if someone is vote is somewhere, I'll show that. But I'm not going to be attack dogs and demean the character of others." And that's the way we run this thing. And now we're liars for having run really a pretty straight-up campaign. Now, we can't speak for everybody that does everything in the name of Ted Cruz. But the super PAC side, our super PAC Keep the Promise. Oh, wait a minute. Keepthepromise.com. Our super PAC,keepthepromise.com, we have really run a straight-up thing. Because that's Ted's character. That's what we want to reflect.

GLENN: I will tell you this, David is in because he does want to raise money for the super PAC because he believes that the only reason why Kasich is still in is he wants to win Ohio. And Ohio, it doesn't even look like he'll win Ohio. And the super PAC needs to have the money to be able to go on and continue to fight. So if you do believe in Ted Cruz, you can donate to the super PAC.

Now, let me switch to -- and, Pat, I don't know if you have this audio. What Marco Rubio said this weekend on, I don't know if it was Meet the Press

PAT: I got the Stephanopoulos audio where he was --

GLENN: Okay. So I want you to listen to what he said.

VOICE: For what it's worth, PolitiFact has never been able to find -- none of us have been able to find any instance --

PAT: That's. Hang on a second.

GLENN: And this is important. Because here's the thing -- there's never been -- in modern history, there's never been somebody who has made it to the presidency without winning Ohio, New Hampshire, or South Carolina. You have to win one of those three. In modern history, nobody has made it without winning one of those three. Hang on just a second.

On the other side, Bill Clinton didn't win anything until Georgia, which was March 1st. So I want you to remember the comeback kid. He did win South Carolina. But South Carolina came later. It came March 6th. The first time he won any state was March 1st. So no matter what's happening at this point, it doesn't matter. You can win with the momentum. So don't be discouraged if you happen to be for a candidate. You know, I think you'll have a hard time -- anybody who hasn't won any of those three states. That's the only thing that's an impediment. This is truly a two-man race. Okay. Go ahead play the audio.

VOICE: Three big contests so far. You've come in third, fifth, and now second in South Carolina. The big question for you is: Where do you win?

GLENN: Now, listen to this.

MARCO: Well, when we get to these winner-take-all states, we have to start winning because they award all their delegates to one person. And if you look at what we're doing now, we're going to be doing a national campaign. I mean, I'm in Tennessee today. Then I'm going to Arkansas. Then we finish up in Nevada. And tomorrow, more of the same. We're campaigning everywhere.

So the way this process works, for people that are watching is, these states right now are awarding delegates proportionally. And -- and -- but come March 15th, if you win a state, you get all of their delegates. That's when it's really going to start to matter, and we'll be in real good shape for that.

VOICE: And Florida needs to be a win?

GLENN: Okay. Stop.

Go ahead.

MARCO: Well, I think that's true for everyone in this race, and it's always been true. We feel real good about Florida.

VOICE: True for everybody in this race.

GLENN: Okay. Stop. True for everybody in this race that you have to win Florida. He is currently polling third in his home state.

DAVID: And notice he was asked what state can you win, and he hasn't named one. He's naming where he's going to be, he's naming what they're going to work for, he hasn't given a state where he can win.

GLENN: Right. And if his strategy is, I'm going to win in Florida. It's too late. That was the -- what's-his-name's strategy?

DAVID: Jeb Bush.

GLENN: No. Not only Jeb Bush, but Giuliani. It doesn't work. It just doesn't work. So I don't know what that strategy is. But you can't win if you say I'm going to win in Florida and you're polling third and it's your home state. Imagine if, you know, Ted Cruz was polling third in Texas. By the way, how is he polling in Texas?

DAVID: He's polling first in Texas.

GLENN: First in Texas. Yeah, I mean, you just can't do that. You just can't poll third in your own state at this point. Rubio is not -- is not a winner. He's just not a winner. People are looking at him and saying, "Well, he can win in the general." I'm not so sure.

Featured Image: Supporters cheer as the South Carolina primary is called for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at his election night party February 20, 2016 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The New York businessman won the first southern primary decisively. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

PHOTOS: What Glenn saw in North Carolina was INSANE

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Last Thursday, October 3rd, Glenn traveled to North Carolina to join Mercury One as they provided critical aid to those devastated by Hurricane Helene.

What Glenn saw during his brief visit looked like scenes straight out of an apocalypse movie: houses torn from their foundations and tossed to the side, sometimes entire towns away from where they were built, semi-trucks rolled, railroad tracks swept away, bridges washed out. It was a level of destruction Glenn had never before seen.

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But perhaps the most shocking encounter of his whole trip was when Glenn discovered a lone FEMA crew. It was a miracle that Glenn even spotted the FEMA truck, as it was parked away from the main road without any signs or markers to indicate to any passerby in need of its existence. Glenn and Congressman Cory Mills decided to talk to this FEMA crew, the only one they had encountered on their trek, and see what they were up to. As it turns out, not much. The FEMA workers admitted that they had only arrived the day before (nearly a week after the hurricane) and still did not have any sort of supplies. They claimed that people would know where they were located via the local news, despite the fact that most people did not have access to power, cell service, their home, or even their cars. Moreover, there seemed to be confusion about whether they were to go door-to-door in order to render aid to those in need.

.@CoryMillsFL and I spoke with the ONLY FEMA crew we could find in Asheville, North Carolina. It was stationed OFF the main road where NO Hurricane Helene victims could easily see them:

“We got here yesterday.”
A WEEK LATE.

“They could go online, make a phone call, or use our… pic.twitter.com/IU5I6KAL5r
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 4, 2024

FEMA dropped the ball on this entire affair, and it is only going to get worse. FEMA is claiming they blew their yearly allowance on aiding illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, another hurricane is approaching Florida and is expected to make landfall on Wednesday. It seems unlikely that FEMA will be of any use to Floridians in need, and they will have to rely on the aid of their fellow Americans.

Want to help out your fellow countrymen where our government has failed? You can donate at Mercury One and rest assured that your money will be used to step in to help hurricane victims where the government is failing.

The case for mass deportation

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Unchecked illegal immigration into America may be the most dangerous issue our country faces today, and with every day it goes unsolved, the risk of a terrorist attack of 9/11 proportions only increases.

Despite the risk, we can't even touch the subject without the Left and the mainstream media having a meltdown. Even suggesting that the tide of undocumented immigrants may pose some sort of national problem will quickly get you labeled as a racist, stumping intelligent conversation before it can even begin. But as any right-minded Conservative will tell you, calls to close the border and deport the people who stole into our country have nothing to do with race.

In his most recent TV special, Glenn described in detail what sorts of dangers we have let into our countries, with facts and figures that prove that if we don't act soon we will be in deep trouble. Glenn made it clear: we need to conduct a mass deportation or risk being torn apart from within. Here are three reasons that make the case for mass deportations:

Islamic terror cells are forming in South America.

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Congressional testimony from the Committee on Homeland Security in 2011 revealed that Hugo Chavez held a "Secret Summit" involving the Supreme Leader of Hamas, the Chief of Operations for Hezbollah, and the Secretary General of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Caracas, Venezuela. It is clear that ever since (and possibly before) there has been a Radical Islamic Terrorist presence in Venezuela. Right now there is an Iranian beachhead off the Venezuelan coast on Margarita Island, where the Iranian government is running criminal activities and recruiting and training Venezuelan gangs. These gangs have used our border crisis to infiltrate the U.S. The most infamous of these gangs, Tren de Aragua, has been declared a terrorist organization by the State of Texas.

Terrorist-backed gangs are smuggling in weapons and tearing through the country.

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What are these Iranian-trained and backed gangs doing in America? As you can imagine, nothing good. Just this year alone an estimated million rounds of ammunition, 1.2 million gun parts, 3,000 body armor vests, and thousands of pieces of other military paraphernalia have been smuggled across the border. On top of that, they have already taken over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, and are now terrorizing the remaining residents.

It's noteworthy that the gang managed to move into the apartment in the first place because they received subsidies through an NGO that was assisting the Colorado asylum seekers program, using money given to the state by the Biden administration in 2021.

Gangs have attacked military bases.

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It hasn't stopped at apartment complexes either. A leak from the U.S. Army revealed that the gangs have launched probing attacks on military facilities within the U.S. Members have been sighted taking surveillance photos of Lackland Air Force Base, as well as firing multiple shots into the facility. Another military base in Texas, Fort Sam Houston, caught a gang member attempting to gain access to the facility. This coincides with suspicious activity documented within the Permian Basin, the largest oil field in the U.S.

They are smuggling in vast quantities of military equipment, probing and surveying military facilities and key energy locations, and taking over residential areas. What exactly is going on and why isn't the federal government taking it more seriously?

VP debate recap: A Vance victory

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This might have been the most consequential VP debate in recent memory.

For those of you who missed the debate, it was a decisive victory for J.D. Vance and the Trump-Vance team as a whole. Vance presented a calm, collected, and considerate side of the Republican party that compliments Trump and helps to make their platform more palatable. Meanwhile, Tim Walz had a lackluster, though certainly not catastrophic, night. He had a few embarrassing gaffes and came across as overly nervous, but like Vance, kept it civil.

Both VP candidates entered the stage as relative unknowns to most Americans, and by the end, both men had given an accurate representation of their characters. Here is a brief recap just in case you missed the debate:

J.D. Vance looked great

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Vance came out of the gate swinging, with a stellar opening statement that helped set the stage for the rest of the debate. He delivered a concise yet compelling recap of his life, which framed him as everything Walz claims to be: a relatable veteran from humble beginnings who earned his position through hard work and service. He then went on to deliver a clear and palatable defense of Trump's platform and mission while cooly drawing attention to the failures of the Biden-Harris administration.

Overall, J.D. Vance looked incredibly presidential. He presented himself not just as a capable vice president, but as a strong successor to Trump and as a valid replacement if anything should happen to the former president between now and the end of his hypothetical second term. Vance also successfully dispelled the notion that he is "weird" as Walz called him, and if anyone looked strange during the debate, it certainly wasnot Vance.

Tim Walz's gaffes

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While Tim Walz certainly didn't have an awful night, he did not stack up well against Vance. Walz had a major gaffe around halfway through the debate when asked to explain the change in his position on assault weapon bans. Walz then claimed that he had befriended school shooters during his time in office. While that was clearly not the intention of what he was saying, it was embarrassing nonetheless.

Another weak moment was when the moderators asked Walz to explain a claim he had made regarding being in Hong Kong during the infamous Tiananmen Square protest in 1989, which has since been proven false. Walz gave a long-winded, rambling answer about taking students to visit China and how Trump should have joined in on those trips, before being called out by the moderator for dodging the question.

Vance fact-checked the fact-checkers

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One of the conditions of the CBS debate was that the moderators would not fact-check the debaters live, but instead rely on after-the-matter fact-checking. But, CBS couldn't keep to its own rules. While Vance was describing the migrant crisis that has swelled during the Biden-Harris administration, one of the CBS moderators, Margaret Brennan, chimed in with a "fact check." She claimed that the Haitian migrants in Ohio have legal status, to which Vance clapped back by calling Brennan out for breaking the rules of the debate, then proceeded to correct her, explaining that they only had legal status due to overreach by the Biden-Harris administration.

Dockworker strike: Everything you need to know

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At midnight on September 30th, dockworkers across the East Coast went on strike, effectively cutting the country's import and export capabilities in half.

Don't go out and panic buy a pallet of toilet paper and instant ramen just yet. It's going to take some time for the full effects of the strike to be felt and hopefully, the strike will be good and over by then. But there are no guarantees, and this election cycle could get significantly more insane as we draw near to the election. And even if the strike is settled quickly, it shows growing cracks in our infrastructure and industrial capacity that needs to be addressed if America wants to maintain its global dominance.

Here is everything you need to know about the dockworker strike:

What do the dockworkers want?

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As with most strikes, pay is the driving factor behind this situation the country now finds itself in. The longshoremen want more pay, and with rising inflation who can blame them? After all, working the docks is hard and dangerous business, and fair compensation only seems... fair. But when you compare the wage of a dockworker, which is around $100,000 to $200,00 a year to the average income in America of $56,000, suddenly they seem significantly less sympathetic.

How much money are they asking for? For most Americans, a three percent raise is considered high, but the unions are asking up to 15 percent, depending on location. On top of that, they are asking for a 77 percent raise over the next six years. The West Coast dock workers recently made off with a 36 percent raise and were considered lucky. These increases in costs are just going to be transferred to the end consumer, and we'll likely see a jump in prices if these terms are accepted.

The other major ticket item is protection against automation. Autonomous ports are quickly becoming a reality, with major ports in China that are capable of handling vast amounts of cargo being run by a single office, not an army of dock workers. Naturally, the longshoremen are concerned that their jobs are at risk of being replaced by machines that can work harder, longer, for cheaper, and without risk of injury.

How will it affect Americans?

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Don't panic yet!

It is going to take some time for consumers to feel the effects of the strike and it is possible that a resolution could happen at any time.

Week one should be pretty much business as usual. It might be a good idea to stock up on fruit and other perishables, but there is no need to go COVID-lockdown-crazy yet.

Week two is when you'll first start feeling the pinch. Fresh fruits and veggies will become scarce, along with other imported goods like shoes, toys, and TVs. Prices will start to creep up as the shelves will start to look a little sparse. The supply of tools, lumber, and other hardware materials will also begin to dry up.

By week three, the cracks in the system will really start to show. Entire industries will begin to slow down, or even stop. Factory workers will get furloughed and sent home without pay. Stores will have to ration items, prices will be sky-high, and online orders will come to a standstill. At this point, the strike will have escalated into a full-blown crisis, and even if it was resolved immediately, it would still take weeks to restore everything to working order.

At the four-week mark, the situation will have developed into a national security crisis, and as Glenn describes, a poly-crisis. Small business will be closing their doors, entire brands will be out of stock, and everything that remains will be so expensive it is unaffordable. By this point, the holiday season will be drawing near and there will be a rush on any sort of gift or decor items left. At this point, irreparable damage to our economy will have occurred and it will be months if not years before it can be mended.

While that sounds bleak, with the election just around the corner, it seems unlikely that the Biden-Harris administration will let it get that bad. That being said, their administration has not been characterized by good decision-making and reasonable policy, so there are no guarantees.

What can be done?

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The big question is "Why hasn't Biden already done something?"

President Biden, who ran on the image of a blue-collar, union-worker, has been uncharacteristically absent from the issue. Despite his earlier involvement in a train strike, Biden has declared that involvement in union fights is not a presidential issue unless it getsreally bad.

So where's the line? At what point will he step in? He has to understand that an economic crisis right before the election will reflect poorly on Kamala.

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