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Donald Trump drew a line in the sand Thursday night, saying if the Republican healthcare plan doesn't passed then he's walking away from the healthcare issue altogether. Glenn and his co-hosts kicked around their ideas Friday on radio, coming to a singular conclusion.
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GLENN: Because there's no one -- look, we knew this. We knew this. Well, I have a lot to say that I will not say. We knew this going in that there is a progressive gene that is in the Republican party. And when it came to Medicare or medical care, Donald Trump is a progressive. So you have Paul Ryan, who we used to all agree was a progressive that was not the guy to tell us about ObamaCare. Nobody wanted to hear from Paul Ryan.
When was that? Two years ago? The president comes in, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan. They're the architects of this? Along with Donald Trump? They're the ones that are going to give us the right kind of health care for conservatives?
PAT: No.
GLENN: We were fools to believe it. Now the question is do we send a message because all that's going to happen the freedom caucus is going to stand and the freedom caucus will say "no." Then Donald Trump will say along with the press "It's the freedom caucus' fault. It's these constitutionalists fault. I'm perfect. You know me. I'm perfect willing to be the outcast. Yep that was us.
STU: I'm uncomfortable in the other position.
GLENN: I am too.
Yep that was us. I refuse to do anything that is unconstitutional. Yep. You want to. You want to make it better, we will make it better. You just want to fool around and try to make the sewer -- you're putting air fresheners in the sewer pipes. It's a sewer pipe. I don't care how you try to freshen the smell, it's a sewer pipe. I don't want to be in the sewers. I'm not going to recommend air fresheners. I'm going to say, hey, why don't we open up the lid and climb out of the sewer and walk around in the forest and the clean air. What do you think?
PAT: Yeah.
STU: You want an argument to pass it? Is it worth?
GLENN: Sure. Yeah.
STU: Let's say they pass the perfect bill in the house. Everything went perfectly, and you had the perfect bill in the house that got passed. It would go to the senate and the senate would not pass that same bill. They would amend it however they want it, and they would pass a senate version of it that you have to come together with afterwards.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
STU: So if you want this process to continue, there's an argument to say the house, get it passed because you weren't getting that bill anyway. It's going to go --
GLENN: Do you think Mitch McConnell --
STU: He's not going to approve it. However, the senate's going to come up with something, and then you can come together and try to find a bill -- but you've killed -- the argument is you've killed the process here, and you have no chance of repealing ObamaCare.
GLENN: If I had confidence anyone in the senate would listen to --
STU: They're going to make it worse.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. They're going to make it worse. So if I had any confidence that the senate would listen to Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, or any of those guys. Rand Paul. I would be for that. But get it in the hands of Rand Paul.
STU: Isn't it a good idea to get Rand Paul in the shot at it? He's certainly been pretty good about health care as they talked about this debate.
GLENN: No. I don't think so.
STU: Why not give him a chance?
GLENN: Because he's not going to be listened to as much as he's listened to right now. Not at all.
STU: I mean you -- the argument is from the Trump administration you don't pass it in the house now, you don't repeal ObamaCare. Now, that's not technically true. However, the way many Republicans in congress seem to work in the White House --
GLENN: I don't want to own this. I don't want to own this.
STU: Yeah, but you don't want to own it but it hurts people. ObamaCare hurts people.
GLENN: And Ryan care or Trump care will hurt people even more.
STU: Well, arguably. I don't know if that's true. But still certainly it will be a saving in spending for the country.
GLENN: Here's how it hurts people even more. It not only hurts people -- you're looking at the tax savings so maybe some people have tax savings. That's not going to help us in the long run because all they'll do is those evil people, they just wanted to have their tax savings. That hurts the conservative movement because this whatever it is will be deemed the conservative health care plan. This is not conservative. This is not free market. This isn't anything we stand for. This is ail progressive health care plan. I don't want anything to do with it.
PAT: They could do better, and we deserve better. This is, like -- we talked about this a few days ago. If ObamaCare was a turd burger, this is a turd burger cut in half.
GLENN: You're still eating turd.
PAT: It's still a turd burger.
STU: And you want the fastest route to single payer is you pass the Republican plan. And if that's a disaster, then they're going to say the only way to fix this is to make it single pair.
GLENN: Right. No.
STU: That's another thing to consider.
GLENN: They will say we tried the Republican light. We tried Obama light. We're going full in because this thing is collapsing. No. No. I refuse to have my name and our credibility on that piece of garbage. Why? You will then -- you will then officially own it. I don't want to own this.
We as conservatives will own this mess because what people will say is ObamaCare would have been better than this. Now the Republicans, they gave us something and look at what they came up with. We need the Democrats to fix it because ObamaCare was better than this and believe me, they will fix it.
No. Call your congressman one way or another because I do believe the president will pull out. I do believe Trump will say fine. We're moving on to something else, and he will target the freedom caucus. He will target all those guys.
STU: And that probably hurts your tax reform plan too.
GLENN: Oh, wait a minute. It sounds like -- wow it sounds like prophecy.
STU: First of all, there's no good outcome, it doesn't seem, from any of this. But the other part of it is, like, doesn't this show how little Donald Trump's administration as a whole cares about ObamaCare actually going away? Like, they -- they're, like, wow you know what? If you don't want this one thing, this week is the end of this issue.
GLENN: You know why, Stu? We were hiring for HR, did an interview with a guy and said -- I said number one priority for HR for me is insurance. And he said I can understand that. And I said "Listen, my view on insurance -- and I told him what I felt. His mouth opened up, and he said"Wow."
And he said "You have a problem with that? And he said no. I've just never heard anyone ever say that."
And I said "Listen, if my family can't use it, doesn't think it's right, has to go and do other things, I can afford that. My employees can't afford that. If I'm not covered on this insurance, they're not covered on this insurance. There's no two standards here. What's right for my family is right for everybody's family."
And he said I have been in boardrooms recently where all of the CEOs and all of the board of directors are there, and we're all talking about insurance because that's happening in boardrooms all across America. And he says this is what they say. Somebody on the board of directors will look and say don't they have -- he says this is a quote. "Don't the people have that Obama thing? Can't we just dump them into that?"
That is I believe Donald Trump as a businessman, that's the way he looks at it. There's a lot of people who are in business that say "Dump them into ObamaCare. I don't care. Get it off my books."
I don't think he does care. You have to have a -- an outlook. Not as a businessman and not as a politician but somebody who actually cares about the people and knows that government system never works. Never.
STU: And, you know, Trump cares about the win here; right?
GLENN: Yes.
STU: Trump cares about the win. Saying he kept a promise. And those things are good. I mean, you want that.
GLENN: I tried, and it was their fault.
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The world has a plentiful, seemingly endless supply of angry boys. What it's lacking is real MEN. Glenn Beck shares the secret that our young men must learn if they truly want to protect and perfect our country.
Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors
GLENN: There's a difference between a revival and an awakening. We are in a revival right now, but that doesn't necessarily lead to anything. Except, oh, I have to re-learn those principles. But that doesn't mean you apply them in your life. Okay?
That's an awakening. There's been two great awakenings in American history. One brought us the American Revolution. The second one brought us the Civil War and the freedom of slaves.
We have the possibility of going into a third great awakening. That's the only thing that will save us. If you don't know the difference between a revival and an awakening. Let me give you the negative print of a godly awakening. Our kids right now, they don't have any purpose. They don't have any meaning.
They look at everything, and it doesn't -- it's not real. None of it is real. It's money. It's fame.
It's -- you know, it's ever changing truths and definitions. And they have no purpose in their life. Okay?
So they're looking for that. Because man has to have purpose in his life. Man has to search for meaning.
So they're searching for meaning. And they found a group of people that actually mean something. And they're willing to die for it. And it's ISIS.
And so they're like, at least these people believe in something. They believe it. And they're willing to die for it. I'm going to stand with them. And they put that twisted understanding into action. That's the -- that is -- that's an awakening. It's just an awakening to the dark side. And that one is already happening. It has to happen on the good side. And let me speak directly to young men: Look, you are inheriting a very loud, angry, cynical and worst of all spiritually starving and malnourished society. And you are being sold a future of cheap pleasures and hollow heroes and screens with blue light that just rob you of your strength, one distracted second after another.
And in the middle of all that noise, may I just give you one piece of instruction. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praise-worthy, seek those things.
Don't admire them. Don't nod at them. Seek them!
Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things. A man who will do that. A boy. A young man who will do that, will become different. Noticeably different.
He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel.
He will become a curator of -- of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.
When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope!
When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he'll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep!
You want to know what the secret of becoming strong is, or becoming trusted, or becoming the kind of man that your future wife, your future children, your future nation can depend on?
Here it is!
You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. If you seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily. Like the steel glow of a blade being forged.
That's who you'll be.
The world has a plentiful, seemingly never-ending supply of angry boys. We don't need any more addicted boys.
We don't need any more distracted boys. The world needs men. Whole men. Clear-eyed men.
Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms, trying to own them!
Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser. Fill your days with work, hard work, that makes you stronger. Fill your home with beauty that lifts every soul who walks into it.
Have your home a place where people walk in and go, man, I say so great here. I just love it here. I don't know what it is about your house. I just love it. It's the spirit that's there! Because you built it! You protect it.
Protect your integrity like a watchman on the wall. Don't lie. Don't cheat. Don't steal. And when you fail, and you will, stand back up again.
Because a man who seeks the virtuous, is not a man who never fails. He just -- he just becomes a man who refuses to stay on the ground.
If you seek things that are lovely and pure, trustworthy, praiseworthy, you'll become a kind of man this age almost never produces. A man whose very existence is a rebuke to the darkness.
That's your calling. That's why you were born.
Not to be lost. Not to play video games. Not to give up. Not to say, there's no hope. Not to end up in the trash bin of human history because you've -- you've taken so many drugs, you can't stand up straight anymore.
You're not destined to be alone.
You were destined for great things. You are destined to find an amazing woman!
Believe me. I didn't think I would ever find an amazing woman. Because I didn't think I was worth it. I didn't think I was worth it.
And until I started understanding how God works. That, yeah. I'm not worth any of the stuff that I have.
When you realize, it's all a gift. It's all a gift. And even if you work your brains out, you may not ever get all the things that you want. But you're going to have everything you need. Once you realize, carefully selecting friends makes a difference. My mother used to always say, show me your friends. I will show you your future.
It's true. Be careful who you select as friends. Watch your language. Watch what you're putting into your brain and what's coming out of your mouth. Because the brain is so amazing. It's being turned to mush. Did you know that there is a new study that just came out. I have to tell you about it next week, maybe.
New study going out. It is -- it's AI. And it has access to social media, and they have found that the AI -- the AI that is scrolling through social media all day, just to keep updated on everything that's going on in social media. It's getting brain mush. It's actually becoming dumber. It's become less effective!
It's a machine. What do you think this, flesh and blood, this thing is going to do?
We say life is meaningless. And life is the only thing that has any value. And yet, we spend all of our time, on things like social media. And that has absolutely no value.
But we think that's life.
I'm not that smart. I've just lived a long time. And I've made so many mistakes.
And I decided at one point, I'm going to stop saying, it's somebody else's fault. I'm going to start saying. Maybe -- what did I do to create that?
What did I do to attract that?
Why does this thing keep happening to me?
Why is it that I always find myself involved with these same kind of people?
Because, Glenn, dummy, it's you!
What you think, it's like -- it's like think of yourself as a -- as a beacon. It's just -- you're a beacon. Your GPS pin, that is constantly saying, here I am. Here I am. Here I am.
Except, it's transmitting more than just your location. It's -- it's transmitting what you're looking for, who you are. And it's attracting other dropped pins to you. It's saying, "I like this. I think this way. I believe these things. I am afraid of these things."
Whatever it is, you're thinking. It's constantly putting that out.
And saying, here I am. Is there anything else like that?
Anything else that can reinforce that? Anything else that can live like this?
Because that's me. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.
That's why you keep finding yourself in exactly the same situations. Nothing will change, if nothing changes!
And the only thing that you can change, is you!
Seek the things, that have virtue.
Seek the things, that have beauty in music, in -- in art, in life, in architecture, in clothing! Whatever it is. Look for real, lasting beauty and value.
Find the things that are true! Truly true.
Universally true. Find the things that uplift. Seek those things!
And you will change your life and your world!
